American Foreign Policy… Reflections on the History of Chinese-North Korean Relations, and US-DPRK Relations Today 12 Mar 201712 Mar 2017 Sometimes we need to modify the questions we ask. The question "Is the Chinese Communist Party going to cut off North Korea?" results in a fairly predictable string of analyses…
Chinese foreign policy… Comment on the North Korean Missile Launch 12 Feb 2017 I was on BBC television this evening (via the Leeds studio) discussing the North Korean missile launch with Celia Hatton, who, fortunately for me and the BBC, is a veteran 'China…
Cultural Politics… What does Kim Jong-un think of ‘The Interview’? Ask the NDC 21 Dec 2014 Kim Jong-un is the head of the National Defence Commission (NDC), which is functionally the top organ of state power in North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). While no…
American Foreign Policy… Carter in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Il in Changchun: Commentary 1 Sep 20101 Sep 2010 BEIJING -- Jimmy Carter hardly rehabilitated the malevolent North Korean regime by showing up in Pyongyang, but the country’s communist leaders were undoubtedly glad to see him. Kim Jong Il’s…
American Foreign Policy… Death of Chang Song U / DPRK updates 30 Aug 2009 Surprisingly, this story seems not yet to have been picked up by English-language media. Chang Song U, the brother of Chang Song Taek and a higher-up in the DPRK bureaucracy,…
US-North Korea relations Yonhap Reports: Bill Clinton to North Korea 4 Aug 20094 Aug 2009 Yonhap News Agency reports that Bill Clinton is heading to North Korea to negotiate release of two American journalists. The White House has no comment for the moment. KCNA's…
North Korea… French Dispatches from Tokyo: Philippe Pons on North Korean Provocations 1 Jul 2009 Why Read the European Press re: East Asia? A Justification I operate on assumptions that more sources, even flawed ones, are better than fewer. (I also believe, unlike the classic…
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