Adam Cathcart takes a brief look at North Korean-Chinese mutual perceptions in their East Asian context.
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Ambiguous Chinese Political Discourse: North Korea’s Capricious Behavior
A leading editorial in Huanqiu Shibao argues that China needs to “enhance its resilience” with regard to North Korea. Mycal Ford translates excerpts and notes the dangers of “doublespeak.”
Korean Peninsula: Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality
Roger Cavazos examines what a renewed outbreak of hostilities would actually look like along the arms-clogged waist of the Korean peninsula. Includes link to an extensive illustrated working paper.
Pirates or Hawks: Who Hijacked the Chinese Fishing Boats?
Pirates or Hawks: Who Hijacked the Chinese Fishing Boats? Leonid Petrov China often describes its relations with North Korea, its closest regional ally, as intimate but not substantial. For more than half a century, Beijing’s attitude towards the Korean peninsula… Read More ›
The Demise of Military Hegemony in the DPRK
How do we know what we know about North Korea? Are eruptions of external violence and massive demonstrations signs of a desire for war, or negotiation? In the wake of the Cheonan sinking in spring 2010, former British Chargé d’affaires in… Read More ›
North Korea’s Troll Army? The Sinophone Internet Debate Over Kim Jong Un’s On-Site Inspection
In the endeavor to follow news coming out of Pyongyang since January 1, it has been occasionally difficult to follow Chinese news threads about Kim Jong Un. Something suprising appears to be happening on the Chinese internet in the Kim… Read More ›
China’s Great Power Strategy Can Help North Korea to Demilitarize: Chinese Scholar
A rough translation of an editorial in Huanqiu Shibao that encapsulates a bit of possible self-delusion in China: the notion that North Korea is about to undertake a “peace dividend,” settle down and fundamentally reorient its economy away from military-first… Read More ›
