North Korea… Putting a Price Tag on North Korea’s October 10 Celebrations 17 Oct 201517 Oct 2015 I don't doubt there is an abundance of potential fury in North Korea's provinces, but it does seem odd that a single parade, fireworks display, and associated banquets and pageantry would eat…
Borderlands… Toward understanding North Korean state fears of Dandong 27 Mar 201527 Mar 2015 On March 26, the Korean Central News Agency reported at length on a truly remarkable press conference. I say "remarkable" because it dealt with a topic that, if even half of…
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…
North Korea… North Korea Misinformation Bingo 9 Oct 20149 Oct 2014 When it comes to North Korea, there are an awful lot of hypotheses floating about the information spectrum these days. Whether or not these all have been encouraged, tacitly or…
American Foreign Policy… “Spit at the American Gentlemen” : North Korean State Media Rolls Out the Welcome Mat for Google 11 Jan 20138 May 2014 A short article released on January 10 in Pyongyang was fairly enervating, though no news media outlet seems to have picked it up yet. Nor, as Daniel Pinkston has pointed out already, has any…
Beijing… Anti-Japanese Protests in Beijing, and the History of Diaoyu Protests 15 Sep 2012 Three suitably breathless Global Times articles and photo galleries are linked below, but for a sane appraisal of at least part of what is going on, I recommend MIT professor M.…
Huanqiu Shibao… Inspector O is Not in the Office: Tracing a Traffic Accident Near Pyongyang 2 Dec 2011 The story has made virtually no waves in English, Chinese, or Korean, but perhaps that is the point: On November 26, apparently within minutes of one another, two separate buses…
China… Democratic/Thought Reform in Tibet 3 Sep 20113 Sep 2011 Man liveth not by links alone, but I did want to make note that, as of Labor Day, this blog will very likely be turning its attentions with greater regularity…
history and memory… Stories to Follow 15 Jul 201015 Jul 2010 I recommend you watch how these stories develop, since most of them have yet to be really reported in the Anglophone press: 1. Legacies of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria Chinese…
Korean War… BW Use in the Korean War: Questioning the Record 25 Mar 2010 Although Russian documents have allegedly put this controversy to rest, scholars and governments continue to probe at the question of communist allegations of American bacteriological weapons use in the Korean…
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