North Korean border region… Blueprints and Rumors in Sinuiju and Dandong 26 Oct 201526 Oct 2015 Last week Christopher Green and I assessed the outlook for concerted Chinese-North Korean development in the critical corridor for trade between Dandong (PRC) and Sinuiju (DPRK). Using the October bilateral…
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…
Borderlands… Stephan Haggard’s Comment on Sinuiju SEZs 1 Aug 2014 Stephan Haggard is frequently described as one of the top North Korea analysts in the United States; his breadth of interest, range of expertise, and command of massive amounts of…
Borderlands… In the Shadow of Jang Song-taek: Lecture in Washington, D.C. 20 Jun 2014 On Thursday, June 19, in Washington, D.C., I gave a lecture and participated in an extensive Q & A on the subject of post-purge North Korean Special Economic Zones in…
Chinese communist party… Yalu River Notes: On Dandong 25 Dec 2011 The following is a cross-post from SinoNK.com. And King Tubby (a regular commenter on both this site and David Bandurski's essential China Media Project) points out a new Los Angeles…
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…
Huanqiu Shibao… Tremors and Premonitions from the Sino-Korean Borderlands 7 Oct 2011 On September 30, 2011, celebrated defense intellectual Zhang Zhaozhong [ 张召忠 ] visited the small but important and growing Sino-North Korean border city of Dandong, giving a talk about China's national…
North Korea… Borderlands Gudgeon 26 Sep 2011 At first I wondered: even in the midst of North Korea's biggest wave of Chinese aid and investment since 1958, isn't it a little bit unusual for the mayor of…
North Korea… North Korean Lorry Watch 24 Aug 2011 Chosun Ilbo reports from Dandong about a supposed influx of Chinese military equipment into the DPRK. I was all over that bridge 5-7 days ago and there were indeed quite…
Manchuria… Scoping North Korea’s Emerging Trade Zones with China 12 Jun 201117 Jun 2011 Leaving the thrall of Hong Kong behind (and not even by boat!), I'll be moving up into Dalian and the Liaodong peninsula for the next several days. Not being a…
