Archive for the tag 'Speculation'

Sep 09 2009

Daily NK: Jong Woon Overstepped His Bounds

Published byJack under Speculation

Confirmations in North Korea is nearly non-existent, and even if there was a confirmation, it is usually smart to question that as well. Therefore, in the world of rumors regarding Kim Jong Un and his supposed role and/or authority in the Kim regime seem to be front and center? Granted, it is not so much [...]

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Aug 30 2009

Projecting Pyongyang PDF

Published byJack under North Korea

One of the last hard-line communist-based societies on the planet, North Korea steadfastly holds on to power despite the zombie like status of the economy and unsure status of the regime’s hold on power. For about a decade or so, predictions of the regime’s collapse have been discussed, and for a while, there was a [...]

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Jul 13 2009

Kim Jong Il's pancreatic cancer?

Published byJack under North Korea

Speculation abounds about the health of the ever-reclusive leader of the DPRK. As usual, this leads to who may control the country if this is indeed the case. Naturally, as with anything North Korea, speculation is all we have, no matter who says otherwise including “intelligence sources”. How many times have these so-called sources been [...]

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Jun 23 2009

If the Korean War should resume

Published byJack under Speculation

An interesting article came across Google News today. It appears the USFK is starting to look at what the DPRK may do in the event the Korean War should resume. This is a very, very scary prospect, and I really hope it does not come down to war in the wake of the increased tensions, [...]

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Dec 07 2008

Is Kim Jong Il really ill?

Published byJack under News

This is kind of old news, but wanted to post about it. Over the last few weeks, there has been a lot speculation about Kim Jong Il’s health and the state of affairs of the DPRK leadership. Of course, there is really no way of knowing what is really going on, but one thing is [...]

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