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Treasured Swords: Environment under the Byungjin Line
Rarely do all three leaders of the Kim dynasty go on the public record about a single policy issue, and this makes inter-generational analysis of policy tropes a thorny proposition. However, we now have access to major treatizes on land management theory from the 1960s, 1980s and 2010s. Naturally, Robert Winstanley-Chesters has them lined up for comparison.
From Penn State to Pyongyang: The Trans-Pacific Political Geography of Grass
Robert Winstanley-Chesters raises the curious and symbolic topic of grass, drawing a line all the way from Penn State to the manicured lawns of North Korea.
New Year…New (Table)Land? A Televized Address and the Curious Case of Sepho
Robert Winstanley-Chesters returns with a fresh opening salvo, piercing the DPRK’s mélange of environmental narratives and revealing Sepho tableland, the one that really matters.
Kwangmyongsong 3-2 and STSAT-2C: Revolutionary Speed and Capitalism, Reversed
It only takes a nuclear explosion to have most of us forgetting about the peninsula space race, but luckily it requires a good deal more than that to throw Robert Winstanley-Chesters off-message.
The Ecologic and the Politic, Nature and the Natural – A Virtual Symposium Exploring the North Korean Environmental
Robert Winstanley-Chesters lays down the gauntlet in a manifesto for a digital/virtual academic symposium focusing on the DPRK’s encounter with global and local environmental narratives.
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