Posts Tagged ‘Liu Hongcai’
Happy Birthday, Dear Leader: KCNA File No. 10
Click here for the full text of the KCNA-China File No 10 (Feb 12-Feb 18, 2012) Happy Birthday, Dear Leader: KCNA File No. 10 Compiled and analyzed by Evan Koepfler, Pacific Lutheran University Amid the array of stories this week that focused on the honoring of DPRK leaders with floral baskets and official statements, and […]
‘Distorting and Speaking Ill of the Reality of the DPRK’: KCNA China File No. 4
The first week of January was a peculiar time in North Korea and for Sino-North Korean relations in particular. Kim Jong Un emerged in full, leading up to his January 8 birthday close-up, doing on-site inspections, attending concerts of canatas praising Kim Jong Il with the old generals, generally coddling the military, and paying no […]
Ambassador Liu Reappears, or, Why Opera Matters
It is a working assumption here at Sino-NK that the Chinese Embassy has been decidedly on “the outs” with the North Korean leadership in the immediate aftermath of Kim Jong Il’s death. The strife over the mysterious deaths of seven Chinese businessmen/tourists in late November 2011, along with the Embassy’s public implication that Kim’s death […]
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