Beijing… “The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948 6 Jun 202023 Dec 2020 “’The Enemies Made This Possible’: Sino-North Korean relations since 1948” with Yujin Lim, in Adrian Buzo, ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 131-140. Abstract: This chapter is…
history and memory… On the PRC Ambassador in Pyongyang, ‘Comfort Women’ Activists, and the Women Cross DMZ Reception 27 May 201527 May 2015 This morning I turned on my computer and immediately became wrapped up in a somewhat quixotic quest to find the origins of a rumor. The rumor being that the Chinese…
Borderlands… New Koguryo Research in Pyongyang, or, How to Revive a Historical Dispute on China’s National Day 3 Oct 2014 It doesn't take much skill at reading tea-leaves in Chinese or English to recognize that Kim Jong-un's letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and Zhang Dejiang on the…
North Korea… On the Inoki Visit to North Korea 4 Sep 2014 Given the amount of public interest in the just-concluded visit of Japanese and American wrestlers to Pyongyang, led by lawmaker (and former wrestling star) Kanji Inoki, I thought I might…
German-Japanese Relations… From the Print World 26 May 2011 Suggested Readings in Sino-North Korean Relations: Alisa Jones, "Nationalizing the Past: Korea in Chinese History," Journal of Northeast Asian History, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 2009): 103-140. [full text here…
American Foreign Policy… The News from North Korea: Relations with China, Aerial Drone Denunciations, Green Totalitarianism, and the Middle East 19 May 2011 Since the emergence of putative successor Kim Jong Eun into the public eye, the North Korean news media -- specifically the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA -- has taken…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea: Examination Materials 13 May 201112 Oct 2018 I recently completed a month-long lecture series on North Korean-Chinese relations at Pacific Lutheran University. Because these lectures were occasioned by a course I teach at PLU, I had the…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea Notes 8 Apr 20118 Apr 2011 North Korean media reports that a small amount of radioactivity from Japan has reached the DPRK. How does a regime that is so good at depicting Japan as a source…
China… Radiation Reported in China’s Heilongjiang Province 28 Mar 2011 Thus reports China Daily, stating that radiation has been found in the water in Fuyuan county [抚远县], which is China's easternmost point in the northeastern most province, very close to…
East Asian modernity… Post-Soulevement 17 Mar 2011 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. …
