North Korea… All Roads Lead to Chongjin 19 Jan 2010 Back in October 2009 I wrote about new tourism agreements put into place between North Korea's North Hamgyong province and Chinese counterparts in Tumen city. In spite of North Korea…
North Korea Police Payoffs in Chongjin and Upset Students in Sinuiju 13 Jan 2010 The latest Good Friends report for January 2010 has been released, and includes these dispatches: Police Returned Stolen Objects to Owners after Receiving Payment At the Chungjin Preservation Center of…
North Korea… Life and Death in the Koreas 6 Jan 20106 Jan 2010 I just emerged from a 46-hour encounter (minus a few breaks for sleeping, teaching, writing, riding a city bus with some ex-cons, and eating) with Barabara Demick's outstanding new book,…
North Korean border region… News from Yanji 21 Oct 200921 Oct 2009 Well, North Korea may be on fire, but the wise Chinese Communist Party has apparently decided that releasing the news in the PRC would disturb social harmony. Or otherwise interfere…
North Korean border region North Korean Frontier Provinces are On Fire 20 Oct 200921 Oct 2009 Joshua Stanton at One Free Korea has been perusing satellite imagery again. Normally this results in his steady and impressive posting of labor camps, as well as compounds and villas…
North Korean border region… News and Background on Sino-Korean Relations 25 Aug 200925 Aug 2009 The South Korean satellite launch is getting short shrift in American media, but the PRC's Global Times gives it top billing. I think this indicates that China is, as it…
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