North Korea… North Korean Lorry Watch 24 Aug 2011 Chosun Ilbo reports from Dandong about a supposed influx of Chinese military equipment into the DPRK. I was all over that bridge 5-7 days ago and there were indeed quite…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Tremors on the Periphery: Sinuiju Unrest 26 Feb 2011 Yesterday I got a message from one of my favorite North Korea specialists, Owen Miller at the School of Oriental and African Sciences in London, concening a recent disturbance in…
China… Chinese Troops in North Korea? 17 Jan 2011 On the eve of Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C., the Chosun Ilbo releases an explosive report that Chinese troops have moved into the Rason Special Economic Zone on Korea's…
China… How Bellicose is the Global Times? Checking the Record on US-South Korea Naval Exercises 8 Jul 20108 Jul 2010 Here in Seoul there has been a great deal of attention paid of late to China's increasingly truculent response to the planned US-ROK Navy joint exercises planned near the northern…
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…
China… Sino-Korean Relations Controversy in the Chinese Press 18 May 201018 May 2010 The premier Anglophone Korea blog, the Marmot's Hole, recently carried an extensive debate about South Korea-PRC tensions over Kim Jong Il's visit. The long comments thread is absolutely worth a…
China… Robert Park in the Chinese Press 6 Feb 20109 Feb 2010 American human rights rhetoric about North Korea tends to rest upon a self-sustaining paradox: in the view of vocal bloggers and conservative newspapers, the Chinese Communist Party is guilty of…
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