Author Archive
Editor’s Note: Sino-NK Junior Fellowship—Byul Ryan-im
Sino-NK extends its institutional and pedagogic journey by developing a Junior Fellowship programme. Introducing our first Junior Fellow Byul Ryan-im of Durham University
Yongusil 12: “War of Words” at Leiden University: Lines of Flight in North Korean Narratology
In the second of our considerations of Remco Breuker’s “War of Words” ERC funded project at Leiden University, Robert Winstanley-Chesters comments on the flattening of historical space time in North Korea and the geist of Manchuria within.
Yongusil 10: Adam Cathcart interviews Blaine Harden in the Yonsei Journal of International Studies: “In Need of an Icon” (full version)
Brutality and autocracy seem to build industries against themselves in our contemporary age. Here the Yongusil presents Adam Cathcart’s interesting and engaging interview with the author of a potentially iconic text, one which will frame North Korea and Kimism in the public mind for many years, Blaine Harden author of “Escape from Camp 14.”
Yongusil 8: NK-News.net and the “STatistical Analyzer of Language IN north korean propaganda”
Yongusil 8 reminds the researcher, reader and analyzer of a once popular now forlorn, yet still useful research tool for mining the KCNA archives
Yongusil 7: Woodrow Wilson Center Archive
Historical data and published information on North Korea derived from deep research or possessed of an empirical focus does indeed exist. In this Yungusil post, Robert Winstanley-Chesters reviews the rich repository of sources available to researchers.