I’ll be speaking this afternoon at a big UK-Korea event in London, delving into the changing Chinese-North Korean discourse on border security and refugees. More on Sino-NK. Continue reading North Korea’s Chinese Frontier — A Presentation in London
Adam Cathcart and Brian Gleason publish an extended essay in Korean Quarterly on the Ling sister and Euna Lee memoirs from North Korea. Continue reading Oprah vs. Juche: Reviewing the Laura Ling/Euna Lee North Korea Memoirs
The Korean border news narrative of the Chinese Communist Party seems to be changing in some subtle and perhaps fundamental ways. As Michael Rank first pointed out on North Korea Economy Watch, the Huanqiu Shibao is now reporting on security problems with North Korean refugees along the Tumen River, and doing so in a relatively aggressive manner: A Chinese report has highlighted how villagers on … Continue reading Emerging Chinese Narratives in the Sino-Korean Border Zone // 环球广播的中朝边区报道
In light of the recent arrest of an American citizen — another Southern Californian evangelical — in North Korea for missionary activities, the following proposal seemed appropriate for consideration: Assuming that North Korea remains sovereign, Christian refugee organizations might do well to devise a ten or twenty year strategy for solving the refugee problem with the active cooperation of the Chinese atheists as opposed to … Continue reading Considering Missionary Approaches to North Korea
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 reading room of the New York Public Library, I sit for a single day, perhaps two, burrowing down into a rather large collection of propaganda aimed at North Koreans dating from the 1950s. As I … Continue reading Deals, Development, and Dead Refugees: Get Ready for the New Status Quo on the Sino-North Korean Border
