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Editor’s Note

By | July 13, 2012

Summer arrives in earnest at Sino-NK with several new additions to our team of analysts, including recent contributors Darcie Draudt in Seoul, Erin Hoshibata in Hawai’i and Nick Miller in Washington, D.C. With a revitalized and global Staff, we have a strong lineup of essays planned for the summer, along with our customary level (other adjectives […]

Let Them Eat Concerts: Music, the Moranbong Band and Cultural Turns in Kim Jong Un’s Korea

By | July 12, 2012

Sometimes analysts fixate all of their energies on hard institutions, such as the central government, the military, or emergent non-governmental groups, as the primary drivers of society. Although government decrees, military drills and protests are important indicators, sometimes the less obvious — that which doesn’t involve rocket launches or social upheaval — tells an equal amount […]

The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16

By | July 09, 2012

The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16 by Roger Cavazos and Evan Koepfler KCNA File No 16, China-Japan Edition -May 15 – June 4, 2012  Evan Koepfler captures the most salient issues in KCNA – pure analytical lodestone.  This period, in particular, was key because DPRK seized 28 Chinese fishermen and their four […]

Insidious Songbun: Roundup of Recent HRNK Panel

By | July 06, 2012

Insidious  Songbun: Roundup of Recent HRNK Panel For many years, few substantive sources on Songbun – North Korea’s social classification system – have existed in English. A new report from Human Rights North Korea changes all that. Robert Collins recently presented his work “Marked For Life: Songbun, Korea’s Social Classification System,” before a panel hosted […]