KJU's younger sister Kim Yo Jong and his longtime logistics aide Hyon Song Wol shooting. They got to keep theirs. Daughter prob has a whole arsenal at home so isn't holding one in the photo. The gifting part is like when Ramsay gives the chefs blenders. but different
Looks like this .. elite sniper drill π₯² .. was done at Metro Garrison Command Training Base No. 38 in East Pyongyang where KJU oversaw real drills and also missile tests many a time.
Really hilarious propaganda about how skilled all elite officials are.
That's the North Korean leader's young daughter shooting a sniper rifle (buried and printed small on page 4 of the Rodong today)
North Korean munitions industry head Jo Chun Ryong (pretty close to Kim Jong Un) suddenly using a walking cane. Trouble going down the stairs after the congress, the leader's sister Kim Yo Jong helps him out
The top generals who led North Korean troops against Ukraine stood prominently at the 600mm MLRS ceremony π€ (Kim Yong Bok, Ri Chang Ho, Cha Yong Bom, Jon Yong Chan)
www.nknews.org/2026/02/kim-...
they started setting up the orchestra tent but otherwise no crowd in the image
The ceremony was for deploying 50 TELs for the 600mm MLRS. what i thought was a crowd was in the same spot as the 50 TELs www.nknews.org/2026/02/kim-...
buses still at PPC today midday. maybe a crowd at the congress venue, and more red carpet installed. kinda suggests it didn't start today but can't be sure. maybe some kind of ceremony in the venue parking lot if that's indeed a crowd
Buses taking Party Congress attendees around Pyongyang were parked at People's Palace of Culture on Tues, typical pre-event registration/prep venue
Expected Congress venue, April 25 House of Culture, had red carpet installed on the stairs today. Likely to start in next few days! (Planet Labs images
The internet is gonna have a time with these today
(Feb. 17 KCNA, Kim Jong Un/wife/daughter open new Hwasong area apartment complex)
May be setting up orchestra area on viewing stand side of road (left of above image)
Also tons of buses today at Kim Il Sung University gym lot (right of this image) for unknown reasons, but not typical congress venue, the April 25 house of culture (left)
www.nknews.org/pro/north-ko...
Fireworks strips being installed across the Taedong River today (right). My baselining shows this happens 1-2 weeks prior to North Korean military parade. Another indicator that the party congress start date is imminent, considering 2021 congress lasted 8 days and parade was 2 days after.
using a camera attached to the side of a missile for video of this test, but not published for the KCNA photo spread like it has in the past (is that a little streaming indicator, kbps?)
This is in the shadow of the Tower to Waterway Project 물길곡μ¬κΈ°λ ν in Sukchon County (inaugurated may18, 2012)
Sorry those two 240mm tests were in 2024 not last year (common January mistake)
Ah, failed to download the one image with the full view earlier. so the exact spot looks like 39Β°23'39.31"N, 125Β°40'38.19"E
This is the same spot as tests of 240mm MLRS on May 10 and Oct. 8 last year
Known target island off NE coast, North Korea's claim of 258.5 km and ROKJCS saying north Pyongyang bring us to this area. Seems on the highway near some known launchpads, and generally lots of tests from around here (39Β°24'12.75" N, 125Β°40'28.33" E) www.nknews.org/2026/01/kim-...
The top one is the Phyongsan uranium plant
beyondparallel.csis.org/pyongsan-ura...
President Lee reacts quickly, calls for investigating the situation. This to me seems like a strange statement. One would expect him to wait some time to gather the facts, then deny it, both if he did or didn't do it. Implies he suspects rogue units did it?
www.news1.kr/diplomacy/de...
North Korea is now accusing South Korea of two more recon drone incursions in Sept and last week, both under pro-engagement Lee admin. www.nknews.org/2026/01/nort...
Read more about the Ryongchon incident here www.nknews.org/2019/01/the-...
And are they implying in the final scene that Kim Jong Un is under assassination threat too by showing this at KJU's Jonwi Street ceremony in May 2024? Thus justifying/explaining to the audience his growing bodyguard cohort lately with their bulletproof shields?
They say Ryongam and other fictional places are in North Phyongan Province just like Ryongchon really is, but they used what i found is Jaeryong in South Hwanghae as a stand-in
This film is crazy.
Does it serve as NK acknowledging the 2004 Ryongchon Station explosion really was an assassination attempt on Kim Jong Il? Really seems they copy that for this film, changing conspicuously to Ryongam Station
www.nknews.org/2026/01/viol...
these dance moves seem like a decade old even in North Korea, but here's their latest example of NK-Pop boy band/girl band dancing for the people at the NYE concert
Spotted a couple at North Korea's Sinuiju greenhouse farm project being built by "youth volunteers" under Kim Jong Un's orders. Never seen this kinda PDA at a project site before. Winter work camp romance
Images from the Sep 2024 test
Looks like North Korea's "hypersonic" missile test was conducted from around the same spot as March 27, 2023 and Hwsong-11A SRBM and Sep. 12, 2024 600mm MLRS tests, around a bunch of missile bases in Junghwa/Ryokpho south of Pyongyang (38Β°52'27.17" N 125Β°55'45.60" E) www.nknews.org/2026/01/nort...
Managers were blurred at that previous possible Sinuiju NLOS missile factory visit, but this might be the same guy? hard to tell. he's positioned as the top manager during this weekend's visit
Here's guy 3 at Songgan May 2024. And previous similarities in what Songgan was producing and an NLOS missile factory KJU visited Sep. 2023. Speculated that might be Sinuiju Measuring Instrument Factory here (www.nknews.org/pro/missiles...). State media reported KJU in Sinuiju Jan. 2, so this fits.
