Kim Jong-un… Full Comment on the North Korean Execution Rumours 2 May 20152 May 2015 Adam Taylor at the Washington Post was kind enough to get in touch with me for a piece he wrote about some recent and rather grisly execution rumors stemming from…
Sino-North Korean relations Viewing the DPRK’s 66th Anniversary through a Chinese Lens 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 The realities of daily life in North Korea are, at best, elusive for the outsider to grasp. A lack of personal experiences often interfere. Those of us who have never…
Borderlands… Stephan Haggard’s Comment on Sinuiju SEZs 1 Aug 2014 Stephan Haggard is frequently described as one of the top North Korea analysts in the United States; his breadth of interest, range of expertise, and command of massive amounts of…
Huanqiu Shibao… Inspector O is Not in the Office: Tracing a Traffic Accident Near Pyongyang 2 Dec 2011 The story has made virtually no waves in English, Chinese, or Korean, but perhaps that is the point: On November 26, apparently within minutes of one another, two separate buses…
North Korea Drums, Gongs, and Elections 25 Jul 2011 No ordinary day in news from North Korea! DPRK Immersed in Festive Mood Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK has an election for deputies to the provincial (municipal), city…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea: Examination Materials 13 May 201112 Oct 2018 I recently completed a month-long lecture series on North Korean-Chinese relations at Pacific Lutheran University. Because these lectures were occasioned by a course I teach at PLU, I had the…
Cultural Politics… Bertold Brecht in North Korea 7 Mar 20117 Mar 2011 Well, more like Brecht for North Korea. North Koreans may need Bibles, but no less, they need the acidic and informed spite, the angular mockery of state power which is…
American Foreign Policy… North Korea Notes 21 Jan 201121 Jan 2011 The Hu-Obama Summit has already been subjected to some of the most intense lobbying pressures known to man. From big business to human rights groups to the defense hawks in…
American Foreign Policy… Obedient, Intransigent North Korea in the Chinese Media 22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 Thanks to the ever-productive Joshua Stanton at the very useful but hopelessly Anglophone (and somewhat impervious) command post for North Korean counter-revolution known as One Free Korea, I got motivated…
China… Northeast Asia — Readings from the Bunker 8 Apr 20108 Apr 2010 The American state of Ohio has more libraries and colleges than pre-war Iraq had suspected chemical weapons facilities. There, on the cusp of the American northeast, young analysts of East…
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