Author Archive
Beyond CRINK: Southeast Asia in North Korea’s New Diplomacy
Recent flurry of high-level contact with Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia points to expansion of DPRK diplomacy beyond China and Russia.
RG 242 Files: Corruption, and Cult of Personality, at Kim Il-sung University
NARA document describes embezzlement and efforts to conceal malpractices at North Korea’s first university during early operations in 1946
Updating the Eternal President: A Review of ‘Accidental Tyrant’, by Fyodor Tertitskiy
Concise work on Kim Il-sung’s life represents the closest account yet to a definitive biography, with fresh insights into the dictator’s rise to power
Remembering ‘the most Lovable People’: 75 years on, China invokes Korean War Spirit
Under President Xi, China has initiated a resurgence in education and cultural production around its Korean War history
Back to Kim: An Interview with Fyodor Tertitskiy
Academic discuses Russian archives, and forgotten wives, after writing first English, book-length biography of Kim Il-sung in a generation
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