Beijing University’s Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga contends that Chinese bureaucratic politics largely drives the direction of the Sino-North Korean relationship.
Archive for August 5th, 2012
Korean War Revivalism in DPRK: Historical Consolidation and Personality Cults
Materials show how the DPRK has been changing its own Korean war narrative — and keeping it stable. The return to fulsome gratefulness to China in the last week of July, and the in-depth discussion of the glories of socialist internationalism before that, showed that North Korea seems determined not to go forward absent the protective shield of the Chinese People’s Republic.
See You in Rio: A Final Look at Team North Korea during the London Olympics
Ben Young went from Yanji to Pyongyang during the Olympic Games, and arrives with a final assessment.
