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Romney’s Dog, Campaign Finance, and Guns: American Culture through the Rodong Sinmun Lens
Romney’s Dog, Campaign Finance, and the NBA Playoffs: American Culture through the Rodong Sinmun Lens by Adam Cathcart As anyone with even a passing interest in the DPRK can attest, of the themes which variously thunder, thrum, or skip intermittently through the North Korean media, criticism of the United States is a constant. The recent […]
Grey Area: Southern Weekend Takes on the PRC-DPRK Sea Dispute
Grey Area, New History: Southern Weekend on the PRC-DPRK Sea Dispute by Adam Cathcart There are multiple ways to read the evolution of the “North Korean hostage-taking at sea” story. As Roger Cavazos argued recently, it could be a parable of ignored Chinese messaging to North Korea. I argued that the episode could serve as a stimulant […]
Crouching Hostage, Hidden Tiger
Crouching Hostage, Hidden Tiger Adam Cathcart Pierced by its most serious domestic political crisis since the late 1980s, China’s leaders have this spring returned to “riding the tiger” of nationalism, hoping to drain off public anxiety and attention from Beijing and focus on China’s sea disputes with, well, just about everybody. Cue an exceptionally-timed act […]
Porous Net: 28 Questions on the “Chinese Fisherman Held Hostage by North Korea” Narrative
Porous Net: 28 Questions on the “Chinese Fisherman Held Hostage by North Korea” Narrative by Adam Cathcart It remains a bit early to draw sweeping conclusions about what this all means, the data points are adding up to a not-so-pretty picture and the fallout to China’s relationship with North Korea seems likely to be rather […]
China’s “Soft Power” Goes Global: Li Keqiang, S.B. Cohen, and North Korea
China’s “Soft Power” Goes Global: Li Keqiang, S.B. Cohen, and North Korea by Adam Cathcart Much attention has been paid, and rightly so, to the “Korea wave” (韩流) and its impacts on North Korean culture. But what about China’s efforts at “soft power” expansion? How, if at all, are these perceived in the DPRK? And […]
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