SinoNK rolls out issue one of the Tumen Triangle Documentation Project: Sourcing the Chinese-North Korean Border, with a preface by former British Chargé d’Affaires to the DPRK, James Hoare.
Publications
Exit the Dragon: SinoNK’s Roundtable on 2012 Reads
The editorial team discusses the most stimulating reads and debates of lunar year 2012, the Year of the Dragon.
A Quarter Century of Change: Yonsei Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 2 (Fall/Winter 2012)
Ri Sol Ju and John Delury headline these selections from the latest issue of the Yonsei Journal of International Studies.
A Party-Centered Defense of Park Geun-hye’s Election and a Primer on Government-Media Relations
Steven Denney investigates the twin peaks of the South Korean media in a country that has yet to fully institutionalize democracy.
Technological Triptych: Scott Bruce on DPRK Digitization
Opening up, or consolidating control? Roger Cavazos looks into the latest scholarship regarding North Korean telecommunications technology.
Kim Jong Un’s Gallant Rescue of Chinese Miners, and Other Tales: KCNA-China File No. 22
North Korean state media tries to smooth over recent controversies with a “Hail Mary” approach to Chinese mining firms. Analysis by Cathcart/Cavazos and SinoNK in Chengdu.
Red State, Blue State, Slave State: Reviewing Melanie Kirkpatrick’s “Escape from North Korea” (Part I)
Adam Cathcart embarks on a review of a new text which analyzes the China-North Korean border region and the Korean “refugee crisis” in northeast Asia, with reference to antebellum America.