Diplomacy
Chinese Bureaucratic Politics and Sino-North Korean Relations: Dynamics and Implications
Beijing University’s Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga contends that Chinese bureaucratic politics largely drives the direction of the Sino-North Korean relationship.
A Divided Korea Does Not Mean a Dangerous Korea
A Divided Korea Does Not Mean a Dangerous Korea by Nicolas Levi Introduction | After and even during its recent and extended rhetorical fusillade at Seoul, North Korea has been stepping up its calls for peace with South Korea in a style common to the past. Pyongyang’s dialogue is coming in spite of escalating tensions […]
Keeping Up with 38 North
Keeping Up with 38 North by Adam Cathcart In the field of North Korea analysts, few have a better blend of relevant erudition and appropriate snark than James Church. In a June 19 essay written for the John Hopkins-SAIS-sponsored and heavyweight-punching website 38 North, Church arrives at a few very valuable conclusions: Kim Jong-un may in fact be […]
Yonsei Journal of International Studies, Volume 4, Issue I: Good Reads in the “Age of the Pivot”
During the spring season just passed, our team at SinoNK was actively engaged in the preparation of various documents pertinent to the past, present, and future of Northeast Asia. Today, Steven Denney, our perspicacious Assistant Editor in Seoul, has made available for SinoNK readers an edifying selection of digital copies from the latest issue of […]
Divergence toward the Far East: A Survey of UK-North Korean Relations
When it comes to countries that have well-established diplomatic relations with North Korea, outside of fellow Communist countries and a few small African countries, the United Kingdom might be one of the last in a list of guesses. However, as SinoNK analyst David Matthew shows in this overview of the United Kingdom’s official relations with […]
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