North Korea North Korean Propaganda Roundup 27 Feb 2010 Reading the Korea Central News Agency's dispatches (e.g., North Korean propaganda stories) makes for a good blast-off into larger works. Today, North Korea confirmed that it signed an agreement in…
Uncategorized Excellent Resource: DPRK TV on YouTube 8 Jan 20108 Jan 2010 I have had the signal pleasure of running across a few YouTube snippets from Korean Central Television before on that Zeitgeist-friendly medium of YouTube, but the site maintained by this…
Uncategorized North Korea-Mexico 29 Nov 2009 A curious feature of KCNA dispatches from Pyongyang is their occasional resort to "friendship meetings" in developing countries where praise is allegedly levied at Kim Jong Il and North Korea's…
Sino-North Korean relations Pyongyang to Honored Chinese Guests: Thanks for Leaving! 26 Nov 200926 Nov 2009 It's a fairly unusual day at the Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang when they have to emphasize that a large delegation of Chinese leaders are leaving the country. Pyongyang,…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Asia’s Ahab: North Korea, Japan, and Environmental Geopolitics in NE Asia 22 Nov 200926 Nov 2009 People who fish, who brave the ocean, who create seriographie of fish, who take pictures of fish, who quantify fish populations -- all of these people have a special place…
Chinese nationalism… Korea Weekend Reads 15 Nov 2009 A new blog appears! Check out Juchechosunmansei, with an essay on North Korean-Chinese relations and China's inferiority complex. North Korea asserts that ethnic Koreans in China are boiling with rage…
North Korea… KCNA Etude 11 Nov 200911 Nov 2009 So many lessons are just lying in wait for all of us on the KCNA repository of news, without which North Korea would remain but a phantom painted in dark…
Sino-North Korean relations… Verdant Parks and Skimpy Harvests from North Korea 2 Nov 20092 Nov 2009 Yesterday, Xinhua graciously carried a photogallery of autumn scenery in Pyongyang. If this counts as propaganda, call me aware of my own complicity; but also be content just to enjoy…
American Foreign Policy… Environmental Movements and the DPRK [II] 10 Sep 200910 Sep 2009 In an earlier post I went off the handle in Beat style and demanded that the U.S. and China get serious about both engaging and pressuring the North Koreans by…
China… Anti-Japanese Upswing in North Korean Media 31 Aug 200931 Aug 2009 For their strange yet uniquely logical reasons, the North Korean propagandists are pressing Japan to never forget its colonial past. This is, in my estimation, a way of reminding the…
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