North Korean border region… Crystalized Data: Additional Notes on the Meth Trade in Yanji 22 Jun 2011 The story of illegal drug distribution across the North Korean border and into China is now being told with a bit of flair in the pages of Newsweek. As regular…
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…
Chinese communist party… Manchurian Base Camp, Part III: The DPRK’s Northeastern Strategy 15 Sep 201015 Sep 2010 Manchurian Base Camp, Part I: In the 1930s Kim Il Song regarded Manchuria, or Northeast China, as an immense area into which to project anti-Japanese struggle and wherein he could…
China Hu Jintao in Xinjiang 26 Aug 200926 Aug 2009 Hu in first visit to Xinjiang since deadly rioting Ivan Zhai ; Additional reporting by Reuters, Associated Press South China Morning Post 26 Aug 2009 President Hu Jintao has visited…