Borderlands… Dandong Discourse: China-DPRK Trade Fair, and Rumblings in Xinchengqu 12 Jul 201513 Jul 2015 Historians have surely seen better days between the Chinese Communist Party and the Kim-centric Workers' Party of [North] Korea, but business continues apace today in the borderland. The main item seen in the…
Beijing… Distant Proximity: China and the North Korean Human Rights Catastrophe 20 Nov 201420 Nov 2014 Beijing is a long way from North Korea. Border crossing points between China and the DPRK remain open, but the potentially fastest and 'game-changing' of these is blocked at present,…
Borderlands… Three Questions on Dandong and Chinese-North Korean Economic Relations 19 Oct 201419 Oct 2014 As the third China-North Korea Trade Fair continues, a few questions (modified from those posed by a stalwart reporter from a northern European news magazine roaming Liaoning province) and tentative…
China… Deals, Development, and Dead Refugees: Get Ready for the New Status Quo on the Sino-North Korean Border 11 Jan 201114 Jan 2011 Among the activities which I undertake each year, there is one for which I reserve a special vim. There on the grand third floor, at the end of the classical…
North Korean border region… Releasing Robert, and Economic Development in Tumen 4 Feb 2010 One Free Korea, channeling Reuters and a fascinating KCNA-published "confession" of the border-hopping misssionary, reports that Robert Park will be released from captivity in North Korea. Meanwhile, Chinese media outlets…
North Korea… Northern Border News 30 Nov 2009 The latest Good Friends report from North Korean sources contains a couple of items of note: The Democratic Women's Union (DWU) of the National Border Area in the North Hamgyong…
North Korean border region… Thunder Rumbles out of Chinese Archives 31 Oct 200931 Oct 2009 Xinhua's English-language service reports: Chinese military archivists have identified more than 100 documents that could lead to the repatriation of the remains of the United States personnel who disappeared during…
China… Chinese Foreign Ministry Statement Refutes Ling & Lee, Defuses Notion of Secret U.S.-North Korea Talks 3 Sep 20094 Sep 2009 Prim and businesslike PRC Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu had her work cut out for her today. The reporters in the room were smelling blood -- a high-profile editorial by…
Chinese nationalism… Fistfuls of Chinese Earth, Breaths of Conspiracy, Fusillades of Propaganda 3 Sep 2009 The Laura Ling/Euna Lee editorial has been partially translated and passed along, virtually without commentary or analysis, on the Daily NK's Chinese website, which is accessible in China. And the…
North Korea… Internet Babble Makes For Poignant Absences 3 Sep 20093 Sep 2009 Sometimes an item will soar up from incoherent babble of the Internet, and shine in a fashion that is so exceedingly incoherent, so counterfactual, so cognitively dissonant, that it actually…
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