Japan… Sinologistical Violoncellist China Media Review – Feb. 15, 2011 16 Feb 201120 Feb 2011 Today's focus: Sino-North Korean relations, with tidbits about border security, a North Korean diplomatic visit to France, and the ongoing consequences of Mubarak's fall in Northeast Asia. Link to the…
Beijing… Sino-NK Stories to Watch 2 Sep 2010 Now that China and North Korea have gotten their stories (mostly) straight about Kim Jong Il's five-day trip to northeast China, a small mountain of evidence exists which is worth…
Chinese communist party… Borderland Banditry 8 Jun 2010 The Chosun Ilbo reported today, via Voice of America: China says it has filed a formal complaint with North Korea about the killing of three Chinese citizens last week by…
China… PRC-DPRK Pygmalion 5 Jun 20105 Jun 2010 Get into character. Who really changes anyway? Perhaps, perhaps, the Chinese: We previously knew that China would be providing tickets to 1000 Chinese fans in South Africa to root for North Korean…
EU-East Asia relations… DPRK Memes 12 Apr 201012 Apr 2010 South Korea Prosecutes a North Korean Agent Formerly Active in Yanbian The Daily NK reports: According to prosecutors in Seoul on Monday, a South Korean man who was trained as…
Korean War… BW Use in the Korean War: Questioning the Record 25 Mar 2010 Although Russian documents have allegedly put this controversy to rest, scholars and governments continue to probe at the question of communist allegations of American bacteriological weapons use in the Korean…
North Korea… North Korea Reading 16 Mar 201016 Mar 2010 International Crisis Group's new working paper was issued yesterday, and is essential reading for folks interested in the DPRK (full text here as pdf.). Among other things, the paper draws…
North Korea… KCNA Roundup 11 Mar 2010 The Korean Central News Agency is North Korea's Xinhua, that is, an organ for propaganda and news. This past week has seen a number of significant themes emerging. What struck…
North Korea-Japan relations… Notes on Japan 14 Dec 200914 Dec 2009 Japan has been rather quiet in the U.S. news of late, but a few things have happened which may be worthy of attention: 1. The secret terms of the 1960…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Asia’s Ahab: North Korea, Japan, and Environmental Geopolitics in NE Asia 22 Nov 200926 Nov 2009 People who fish, who brave the ocean, who create seriographie of fish, who take pictures of fish, who quantify fish populations -- all of these people have a special place…
