Hip-hop… Smartphone Border Run Shamaness North Korea Remittance China Friendly Kim’s New Family KCNA Pastiche 12 Feb 2011 KCNA, the North Korean "news" agency, has a fascinating piece on problems caused by smartphones in US prisons (thus simultaneously bashing America and reminding readers that mobile technology is potentially…
China… Chinese Troops in North Korea? 17 Jan 2011 On the eve of Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C., the Chosun Ilbo releases an explosive report that Chinese troops have moved into the Rason Special Economic Zone on Korea's…
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…
American Foreign Policy… Obedient, Intransigent North Korea in the Chinese Media 22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 Thanks to the ever-productive Joshua Stanton at the very useful but hopelessly Anglophone (and somewhat impervious) command post for North Korean counter-revolution known as One Free Korea, I got motivated…
Huanqiu Shibao… Sunday Links: Korea 4 Jul 2010 1. Joshua Stanton's analysis of Sino-North Korean relations on One Free Korea is stuffed with things worth thinking about. Of course, when he equates the Global Times with the Nazi…
North Korean border region… Assassin Disinformation: Western and Chinese Media Parse the Defectors 24 Apr 201024 Apr 2010 In case you hadn't heard, two North Korean assassins were recently apprehended in South Korea on a mission to kill Hwang Jang Yop, the grizzled 87-year-old architect of the juche…
China… Robert Park in the Chinese Press 6 Feb 20109 Feb 2010 American human rights rhetoric about North Korea tends to rest upon a self-sustaining paradox: in the view of vocal bloggers and conservative newspapers, the Chinese Communist Party is guilty of…
Chinese nationalism… PRC Media on Inter-Korean Talks / Huanqiu Netizens vs. Human Rights Street Performance 19 Jan 201019 Jan 2010 China is sometimes accused of desiring something less than success for South Korean ventures in North Korea. From such a perspective, industrial zones like Kaesong portend a South Korean…
North Korea… New Korean-American Messiah Crosses the Tumen (Updated) 26 Dec 200926 Dec 2009 One Free Korea carries a vital and extensive report on the latest international incident on the North Korea-China border: Reuters is reporting that Robert Park, a 28 year-old American, has…
Chinese nationalism… Further Evidence China is Displeased with North Korean Currency Reform 12 Dec 200915 Dec 2009 On December 8, the Huanqiu Shibao carried an item headlined "South Korean Media Reports that Two North Korean Citizens Illegally Trading Currency Were Executed [韩媒称两名朝鲜居民因非法兑换货币被枪决]," marking the first time in…
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