Chinese communist party… Corruption, Sanctions, Dandong 3 Oct 2016 In two essays which I anticipate publishing this week (in NK News and CPI Analysis, respectively), I question the connection between Xi Jinping's anti-corruption activity and the implementation of sanctions…
Beijing… Distant Proximity: China and the North Korean Human Rights Catastrophe 20 Nov 201420 Nov 2014 Beijing is a long way from North Korea. Border crossing points between China and the DPRK remain open, but the potentially fastest and 'game-changing' of these is blocked at present,…
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…
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…
North Korea… Reading Kim Il Sung’s Memoirs [1] 6 Aug 20106 Aug 2010 Although no one seems to be writing about the topic, Kim Il Sung's life and works are likely to play an important role in justifying any new direction taken in…
China… Korea in the Huanqiu Shibao 6 Apr 2010 Today's array of data on the Huanqiu Shibao/Global Times page is simply overwhelming; a brief selection of links with minimal commentary shall have to suffice: On the North Korean Front…
North Korean border region… Dam News: China and DPRK Agreement on Yalu River Development 2 Apr 2010 News is crackling along the frontiers of Sino-North Korean relations, and here at S.V. we thus are shaking off the torpor of spring to spring, metaphorically at least, over the…
North Korea… ‘Don’t Confuse UN Sanctions with Normal Bilateral Trade Relations’: PRC Foreign Ministry on New North Korean Free Trade Zone 25 Feb 201025 Feb 2010 Today's Huanqiu Shibao headlines a statement made by PRC Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang regarding expansion of trade with North Korea. I'll just go ahead and drop in the whole…
