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Web Resources for Ji’an, PRC

By | April 08, 2011

Ji’an is best known as the site of some very important Koguryo tombs.  In the modern era, it was a major pipeline for Chinese military intervention into the Korean War in 1950 and is an important node in the event that China would wish to intervene again in Korea. You can find Ji’an here on […]

Links for July 26, 2010

By | July 26, 2010

North Korean Bluster National Defense Commission is in the driver’s seat in Pyongyang with another explicit nuclear threat http://tinyurl.com/25qmf66 Pyongyang alleges US is openly talking about “preemptive nuclear strike” on North Korea http://tinyurl.com/33qzn9w The Cheonan effect: war preparations centralize power in the Nat’l Defense Commission//NK much directly threatens nuclear retaliation for US-ROK drill in this […]

Mission Statement

By | February 13, 2010

Upon the death of Kim Jong-Il, SinoNK.com will be evolving into a regular examination of China’s relationship with North Korea, geographically anchored in the study of the Sino-North Korean borderlands, both historically and in the present.  Its aim is to become the premier web resource for the study of contemporary Chinese influence in North Korea, […]