North Korea is Rising, Xi in Pyongyang - CPI Efforts Continue!
As Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang, The Wall Street Journal has decided to admit what mainstream media in the United States rarely acknowledges: countries that break out of globalism and imperialism are able to greatly improve the lives of their people. The Wall Street Journal headline reads: “The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is... North Korea. Arms Sales to Russia and Goods From China Provide a Boost, Despite Sanctions; ‘The Regime Is Wealthier Than Ever.’”
The article acknowledges what CPI has been saying for a long time: despite being isolated by crippling sanctions and a threatening U.S. military presence in the Pacific, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been marching ahead with a housing boom, expansion of its weapons exports, computer chip technology, and other breakthroughs. The standard of living is rising.
But as CPI founder and director Caleb Maupin has long pointed out, this is just the beginning. North Korea’s mountains are full of minerals. The country’s population is largely multilingual, and the industrial capacity of a nation that already manufactures its own cell phones despite sanctions is ready to open up for business.
No organization in America has done more to raise awareness about North Korea and the great economic potential of the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula than the Center for Political Innovation. In 2023, we were outside the White House with a banner depicting Trump and Kim shaking hands that read, “Finish What Trump Started! Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula!” We published a short book “Journey of Hope: Building a Movement for Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula in America” and distributed it at the World Youth Festival in Sochi.
During the 2024 election cycle, CPI members and friends marched all over Manhattan with a banner that read, “Only Peace Can Make America Great Again,” and featured Trump and Kim shaking hands. This banner was displayed outside Trump Tower and the New York Public Library. It was even unfurled outside Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally and was highlighted in New Yorker magazine and USA Today. CPI members brought the banner to Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and distributed thousands of booklets about the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula and the hope of building the “Peace Bridge,” or Bering Sea Tunnel, connecting the United States to Russia via Alaska.
Currently, the Center for Political Innovation’s Northeast Regional Leader, Noah Schenck, is leading weekly sessions of the American Juche Study Group, engaging with Americans from various religious and political backgrounds about the ideology of Kim Il Sung. CPI published a textbook, Juche for American Workers, to help facilitate the study group sessions. Juche online study sessions take place every Tuesday evening at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and the studio link is public for anyone to join.
In addition, CPI has launched a campaign centered around a pamphlet called Why Is It Impossible to Get This Flower in America? Thousands of copies of this booklet about Kimilsungia, the flower named for Kim Il Sung during his state visit to Indonesia in 1965, have been distributed in New York, Los Angeles, Minnesota, and other parts of the country. The booklet uses North Korea’s history and reality as a bridge to explain anti-imperialism and the optimistic vision of Caleb Maupin and Innovationism.
The only organization in America that is seriously committed to solidarity and friendship with People’s Korea is the Center for Political Innovation. Our activism, outreach, and study sessions will continue. Our members have met with representatives of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League and the Workers’ Party of Korea at international gatherings, and we hope each day to do our part to improve U.S.–DPRK relations.
