Economics
Mahan Over the Tumen Delta: China’s Naval Ambitions for Rason
China’s role as a trading power along the North Korean frontier is already widely respected, but what about the PRC’s naval ambitions in North Korea? This essay looks at potential Chinese uses for the North Korean port of Rason.
April 15 Roundtable
With the arrival of April 15, North Korea has arrived at the 100th birth anniversary of its founder Kim Il Sung. We here at SinoNK.com are fervent believers in the importance of the politics of memory in the DPRK and among its allies — and for more about this topic, one can consult the list […]
Kim Family Business: North Korean Elite Social Networks and DPRK Foreign Trade
To what extent is North Korea prone to “open up” to the outside via foreign trade? And what role do North Korean family networks play in this trade activity? Nicolas Levi writes from Warsaw with much data to consider in pursuit of these questions. – Adam Cathcart, Editor-in-Chief. Kim Family Business: North Korean Elite […]
Not Just a Steady Diet of Foreign Currency: Explaining the Price of Rice in North Korea
Christopher Green is Manager of International Affairs for Daily NK and writer of Destination Pyongyang, based in Seoul. Not Just a Steady Diet of Foreign Currency: Explaining the Price of Rice in North Korea by Chris Green Until very recently, the price of rice in North Korea’s markets (“jangmadang”) had been trending upward, and this had been […]
Generational Change in China and North Korea
Generational Change in China and North Korea by Scott Bruce 2012 is a year of political transition in North-East Asia. Russia and Taiwan have both had recent elections, South Korea will have both a parliamentary and a presidential election this year, in April and December respectively, and the political environment in Japan remains fluid. With […]
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