EU-East Asia relations… Powerless Harmonies: Cultural Diplomacy in French-North Korean Relations 29 Dec 201429 Dec 2014 In March 2012, an orchestra of North Korean musicians went to Paris to perform, an event which gave us a very good case study of looking at the DPRK's soft…
EU-East Asia relations… Jack Lang Speaks Out on his Pyongyang Voyage 26 Nov 2009 Via the always-interesting-if-not-completely-comprehensible Association for French-North Korean Friendship blog, a forty-minute interview with Jack Lang is now available on the subject of his trip to Korea. His French is pretty…
French… Jack Lang in North Korea: Updates 17 Nov 2009 AFP reports that after ten hours of talks over five days with French envoy Jack Lang, North Korea agreed in principle to further discussion with France over the issue of…
Cultural Politics… A Frenchman in Pyongyang 11 Nov 200911 Nov 2009 While Anglophone Korea-watchers are checking up on U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth's itinerary and insouciantly lining him up in a rhetorical 3-4 formation next to to 1980s football linebacker sensation Brian…