Kim Jong Un tours new luxury cruise liner

Kim Jong Un tours new luxury river cruiser in Pyongyang North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un toured a recently completed luxury river cruiser in Pyongyang and named it "Mujigae" (rainbow), state media said on Monday. The multi-floor vessel, spotted under construction by NK News in September last year, contains restaurants, bars, a coffee shop, roof deck and even sushi-conveyor belt-style dining area, pictures published in Monday’s Rodong Sinmun showed. With Kim Jong Un ordering the Mujigae to be ready for use by October 10, it appears likely that it will be used for observation activities along the river on the anniversary date. Visit NK News for more External construction on N. Korean power plant complete The main building work on Power station No.1 of the Paekdusan Youth Hero Hydro project is now complete, according to a broadcast from Korean Central Television released yesterday. North Korea watcher Curtis Melvin also noticed DPRK media recently began referring to the plant by a new name. According to the NK News KCNA Watch data tool, articles published in August referred to the project as the “Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station”, but those in September have replaced the word “songun” with “hero”. Visit NK News for more NK News launches new international expert opinion survey series on N. Korea NK News – an independently owned specialist North Korea focused news, information and data outlet – announced the launch of a major new international expert opinion survey series on Monday. Drawing on the opinions of nearly 40 experts working on DPRK affairs, the survey will show the contemporary opinions of groups of leading American, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian DPRK specialists, as well as defector voices and the rarely vocal foreign residents of Pyongyang. Visit NK News for more What will it take for a normalization of relations betwen North Korea and the United States? In the first of a new expert opinion survey series, NK News speaks to five American experts about what it will take for a breakthrough in relations between Pyongyang and Washington. Experts include Bruce Klinger, Darcie Draudt, David Straub, Nicholas Eberstadt, and Stephan Haggard. Visit NK News for more

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