Art… Tropes of Victimization in North Korean Textbooks of the Late 1950s 17 Oct 200917 Oct 2009 Just a few scans from a single Korean source I picked up last year in Yanbian, published in Pyongyang in 1959, the year after the Chinese People's Volunteers left North…
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda, East Asian Dictators, and Glenn Beck 16 Aug 200921 Aug 2009 Today I spent some time leafing through a solemn black notebook filled with sketches made primarily in the stacks at the University of Washington Suzzalo Library, reminding myself that not…
Cultural Politics… Kim Il Song’s _Works_ and Anti-Chinese Sentiment in the DPRK 11 Aug 200912 Aug 2009 Kim Il Song's Works form part of the backbone of any serious student's reading about North Korea. Although this lengthy, often pedestrian, heavily edited, and occasionally fabricated collection runs to 40 volumes, there are…
North Korea… Brian Myers / Montana as North Korea 7 Aug 20097 Aug 2009 Brian Myers is one of the more cogent public commentators on things North Korean. His equation of the race theories of the DPRK with those of Hirohito's Japan is particularly…
