Archive for May, 2012:
In My Father’s House There Are Many Bunkers: Assessing the Kim Jong Un Speech
Kim Jong Un’s pre-centennial speech to the WPK, admonishing the functionaries to hold his grandfather and father — now the eternal General Secretary of the WPK — in high esteem, occurred in what are anything but thriving times. In North Korea, such behavior is the continuation of an old tradition.[1] The April 15 speech, analyzed […]
Reading the Riot Act and the Technology Revolution: Weekly Digest
This week’s digest covers a plethora of Peninsula-pertinent issues, and represents the substantive introduction of my Yonsei University colleague, Brian Gleason, to SinoNK readers. Gleason, along yours truly, arrives with some original reporting on the issue of North Korean jamming of flights out of Inchon. Thus, if you are in-bound to Seoul, the digest suggests that you may want to […]
Mayday: North Korean Internal Security Delegation in China
Nick Miller is on his way to the Korea Economic Institute for the summer. Fittingly, questions of mobility and structure are a preoccupation of the present post. — Adam Cathcart, Chief Editor Mayday: North Korean Internal Security Delegation in China by Nick Miller North Korea Leadership Watch recently reported that a delegation from the DPRK […]
Upstaging Dystopia: Adam Johnson and Suk-Young Kim on North Korea’s Performance Culture
Along with some fine displays of military bravura and a notable speech by the new North Korean leader-commissar (before he retired to enjoy a smoke), April was a month during which foreigners shone their bright talents as entertainers for the Pyongyang elite. Now those musicians and jugglers and PLA singers (no true jesters were allowed, […]
“Hire a North Korean”: Chinese Economic Magazine
Not long ago in Foreign Policy, Marcus Noland laid into the notion of economic transparency with regard to North Korea. Where are the facts? And just what are the data points? Fortunately, when looking at Chinese side of the equation, we are somewhat less empty-handed, and our frustration is often matched by relative satisfaction at […]
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