Sino-North Korean relations Viewing the DPRK’s 66th Anniversary through a Chinese Lens 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 The realities of daily life in North Korea are, at best, elusive for the outsider to grasp. A lack of personal experiences often interfere. Those of us who have never…
Borderlands… New Daily NK Essay: On the Emerging Reality of High-Speed Rail in Eastern Jilin 30 Apr 2014 Eastern Manchuria, for decades a cold and industrially declining region, is now a site of huge infrastructure development. Time and space between the three northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and…
EU-East Asia relations… Inside North Korea: French Edition 5 Sep 20115 Sep 2011 I found this French film, apparently shot in spring 2010, to be better than most treatments of the North Korean tourist experience. Among other things, a young North Korean "rapper"…
North Korean border region… Crystalized Data: Additional Notes on the Meth Trade in Yanji 22 Jun 2011 The story of illegal drug distribution across the North Korean border and into China is now being told with a bit of flair in the pages of Newsweek. As regular…
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…
American Foreign Policy… Stories 10 Feb 201010 Feb 2010 Everybody loves stories, facts mixed in with dangerous interpretive tinctures. But today is a day of no comment, of comet-less commas, of post-somatic traumas which embalm us with twisted tatoos…
China… Crimes and Misdemeanors in Yanji 8 Feb 20109 Feb 2010 In the endeavor to put some meat on the bones of the Chinese side of the Robert Park story (e.g., What was Park doing in Yanbian and what was the…
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…
North Korean border region… Borderland Updates 中朝边区的消息 25 Jan 201025 Jan 2010 1. Wangqing County government in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture brings you a fantastic image of how cadre spend a full afternoon. Something tells me these guys didn't get the…
North Korea… All Roads Lead to Chongjin 19 Jan 2010 Back in October 2009 I wrote about new tourism agreements put into place between North Korea's North Hamgyong province and Chinese counterparts in Tumen city. In spite of North Korea…
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