history and memory… Napalm and Invasion: North Korean War Memory and British Sources 1 Jun 201716 Jul 2018 In a recent post on his black-and-white personal blog, the North Korea scholar B.R. Myers criticizes a recent ream of journalistic think pieces about the function of Korean War memory in the…
history and memory… Collaborative Research and the New North Korean Social History 12 May 201512 May 2015 The writing of North Korean history is a difficult, exciting, contested, and increasingly social endeavour. Research networks and sharing of sources of ideas are more important than ever. Charles Armstrong's…
history and memory… Ideology and Anti-Factionalism: A Survey of North Korean Workers’ Party Publishing Output in 1958 14 Apr 201519 Feb 2018 In May 2010, the US Central Intelligence Agency released a file which it had had in its files for many decades: Korean Books (in Korean), No. 1, Catalogue of Books by…
history and memory… Commentary in the Financial Times 21 Dec 201426 Dec 2014 I published a op-ed in the pages of the Financial Times in London on Friday, 19 December, entitled 'For North Korea there is nothing comic about killing off Kim': Hot-headed North Korean…