Economics
Show Me the Money: Evaluating Jang Song-thaek’s Search for Economic Cooperation in Beijing
Limos, nuclear test scuttlebutt, economic integration, and Kim Jong-un’s role in China-DPRK relations: Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga (Beijing University) breaks down the Jang visit.
Translating Jang Song Taek in Beijing: A Communique Troika
Adam Cathcart tracks down significant divergences in the Chinese and English versions of the public statements released in Beijing after the visit of North Korean leader Jang Song-taek to the Chinese capital.
“Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group
Adam Cathcart documents and analyzes accusations of wholesale North Korean theft from and violence toward their Chinese counterparts in the mining industry.
Style or Substance? Kim Jong-un’s Personality Cult and Reform in North Korea
Sabine van Ameijden (Department of War Studies, King’s College, London) revisits the DPRK’s reforms of 2002, looks at Rason, and asks what standards need to be used to assess the depth of North Korean assertions of reform.
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.
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