Borderlands… Comment on Haggard: The North Korean Restaurant Franchise 24 Jun 2014 Stephan Haggard is an endless source of extreme quantities of highly enriched North Korea information. His 'blog' posts (which are usually more like mini-journal articles, trenchantly done but lighter and…
Borderlands… In the Shadow of Jang Song-taek: Lecture in Washington, D.C. 20 Jun 2014 On Thursday, June 19, in Washington, D.C., I gave a lecture and participated in an extensive Q & A on the subject of post-purge North Korean Special Economic Zones in…
Borderlands… Cambridge on the Tumen: A Transnational Workshop 7 Jun 20149 Jun 2014 A small group of scholars gathered in Cambridge on Friday, May 23 for a conference centered on the Tumen River and a critical sub- region of Northeast Asia which has seen…
Borderlands… Assessing the Jang Song-taek Effect: The View from Yanbian 30 May 201430 May 2014 I spent the month of April in northeast China, and had the opportunity to speak to several knowledgeable interlocutors about Sino-North Korean relations. In particular, the aftereffects of the purge…
Korean War… Is China losing faith in North Korea? A Contribution to The Guardian 9 May 2014 Having been asked to put something together for the Guardian's new North Korea network, I did, and had the following short essay included as part of a very fine panel:…
China… The Guardian’s North Korea Network, and a Note on Journalism, Fieldwork, and Academia 30 Apr 2014 The Guardian has created a new North Korea Network, of which the web journal which I edit, Sino-NK, is very much a part. Graciously, the editors in London also saw fit…
Borderlands… New Daily NK Essay: On the Emerging Reality of High-Speed Rail in Eastern Jilin 30 Apr 2014 Eastern Manchuria, for decades a cold and industrially declining region, is now a site of huge infrastructure development. Time and space between the three northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and…
Cultural Politics… Oprah vs. Juche: Reviewing the Laura Ling/Euna Lee North Korea Memoirs 15 Sep 201211 Oct 2012 Brian Gleason is a young analyst of North Korean refugee issues and international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul. Through his work on the site SinoNK.com, Gleason and I connected,…
Chinese communist party… Yalu River Notes: On Dandong 25 Dec 2011 The following is a cross-post from SinoNK.com. And King Tubby (a regular commenter on both this site and David Bandurski's essential China Media Project) points out a new Los Angeles…
North Korea… Insights into North Korea’s Internationalization 30 Sep 201130 Sep 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpE5oZoq1Kw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6dHZ4KH9Zo Readers/viewers may also be interested in this related video session about the same book at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo with Jiro Ishimaru and Bradley Martin; the…
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