Archive for March, 2012:
Going Forward: Continuing the Fight for North Korean Refugees
Going Forward: Continuing the Fight for North Korean Refugees by Mary Soo Anderson This commentary was originally intended to address the possibility of repatriation for the 31 North Korean refugees reportedly detained in China. Despite China’s well known history of forcibly sending back North Korean defectors caught within its borders, following interviews I conducted with […]
Tracking Responses to the DPRK’s Planned Missile Launch: Scholars, Propagandists, and Chinese
Tracking Responses to the DPRK’s Planned Missile Launch: Scholars, Propagandists, and Chinese by Adam Cathcart There have been multiple surprises arising out of North Korea’s March 16 announcement that, having agreed on February 29 to a moratorium on nuclear testing and missile launches, the country would be launching a satellite next month from a province […]
Weekly Digest
This week’s Weekly Digest devotes a significant amount of space to the concept of social transformation and debates found throughout the interwebs on whether or not social change, revolution or some combination of the two are likely approaching in North Korea. Commentary on economic change and articles that relate to the concept of trust building […]
There Goes the Neighborhood? Zhang Dejiang, Chongqing, and Chinese-North Korean Relations
Sino-NK’s editors are on the move, fleeing North: Managing Editor Charles Kraus is in Toronto for the Association for Asian Studies conference, and Chief Editor Adam Cathcart is on assignment in the PRC’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region. Goings-on in Beijing and further south in Chongqing, however, are at the heart of this Krausian missive. — […]
Not Just a Steady Diet of Foreign Currency: Explaining the Price of Rice in North Korea
Christopher Green is Manager of International Affairs for Daily NK and writer of Destination Pyongyang, based in Seoul. Not Just a Steady Diet of Foreign Currency: Explaining the Price of Rice in North Korea by Chris Green Until very recently, the price of rice in North Korea’s markets (“jangmadang”) had been trending upward, and this had been […]
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