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…
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…
Huanqiu Shibao… Sunday Links: Korea 4 Jul 2010 1. Joshua Stanton's analysis of Sino-North Korean relations on One Free Korea is stuffed with things worth thinking about. Of course, when he equates the Global Times with the Nazi…
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…
North Korea… News from Within North Korea 14 Mar 2010 The Buddhist organization Good Friends has finally released what appears to be their final two reports (here and here) for the month of Febuary based on defector and cell-phone testimonies. …
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…
North Korean border region Correcting the Record on News from the Border Zone 5 Oct 20095 Oct 2009 Justification Regular sources of information from the Chinese-North Korean border zone are difficult to come by. The Daily NK is one of the more abundant, and apparently reliable sources, that…
Music… North Korean Successor Buzz Suddenly Silent: Correcting and Explaining the Daily NK’s Report 9 Sep 200915 Sep 2009 The Daily NK reports on the somewhat mystifying drop-off in North Korean discussion about the ostensible successor, Kim Jong Un. (Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here.) In general,…
North Korea… News from North Korea / 北朝鲜新闻报告 14 May 200915 May 2009 Pyongyang's Korea Central News Agency [KCNA] reports that the two American journalists seized along the Tumen River last March 17 will be tried on June 4. According to the North…
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