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Moranbong Band Performing for Kim Jong-un, et. al., in Pyongyang, August 25, 2012 | Photo via NK Leadership Watch

Juche Pop: New Assessments of the Moranbong Band

By Adam Cathcart | September 28, 2012

A musical vision of the DPRK future? Adam Cathcart translates a favorable article about North Korea’s favorite new ensemble, and Jimin Lee provides commentary.

Reporter Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam, via VNAFMAMN

Editor’s Note

By Adam Cathcart | September 27, 2012

As the fall semester gets off the ground in earnest, we anticipate enacting a few more changes to our overall profile which we anticipate announcing relatively soon. In the meantime, a spin-through some recent activity of our editors and selected analysts may be of interest. Here is a tour of Sino-NK around the web, and its editors and analysts in action around the world.

Kim Young-hwan has, since his "conversion," positioned himself in the active sphere as an activist for North Korean human rights, insisting that the issue is not merely an internal issue but an international one worthy of global attention. | Image: NK Net

The Public Sphere in South Korea: Kim Young-hwan on the National Security Act

By Steven Denney | September 26, 2012

Amplifying and analyzing critiques of South Korea made by human rights activist Kim Young-hwan at a Yonsei talk, Steven Denney takes on B.R. Myers and the history of the ROK.

North Korean Choristers in Chengdu, June 28, 2012 | Image courtesy Huaxidu Shibao

Reviewing “The Flower Girl”: DPRK Sea of Blood Opera Troupe on Tour in China (3)

By Adam Cathcart | September 23, 2012

What are the harmonic underpinnings of North Korean persuasion and social control? Adam Cathcart continues with an examination of a core DPRK opera.

Hwanggumpyong and Wihwado Special Economic Zones

Port Mentality: North Korean-Chinese Relations and Rajin

By Nick Miller | September 21, 2012

Nick Miller interprets Chinese investment into Rason, the port in extreme northeast Korea, into Beijing’s financial and strategic perspective. Intro by Roger Cavazos.

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Contemplating a Post-Xi Landscape: Four Scenarios for Xi Jinping’s Absence, Return, or Purge

By Roger Cavazos | September 13, 2012

Roger Cavazos (SinoNK Coordinator & Analyst with Nautilus Insitute) injects multiple doses of realism and context into the mystifying narrative of Chinese heir apparent Xi Jinping’s disappearance.

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Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. Sino-NK has been quoted in such outlets as The Economist, Washington Post, Politico, and Wall Street Journal, and is utilized frequently by scholars and journalists. Sino-NK endeavors to better understand North Korea’s relations with the world and to chart a path forward for digital (and) academic analysis.