The Jangmadang of Sino-NK, emblematic of its North Korean namesake, serves as a marketplace for ideas, representing a distinctive approach towards disseminating scholarly and empirically grounded perspectives on critical issues pertinent to East Asia. Managed by the staff of Sino-NK, this platform offers concise but timely insights into contemporary research debates and news.
Toilets as Signifiers: Nuclear Power and the Korean Left
Sino-NK surveys the nationalist discourse and finds that progressives, like conservatives, support a nuclear-powered, “strong and prosperous” Korea.
“This Is Not a Test:” Yeongpyeong, Media Discourse, and Local Experience Today
Darcie Draudt weaves through the conflicting messages about and by the residents of Yeonpyeong Island, where normality and war go hand-in-hand.
The Amulet: Chinese Justification for North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions
Mycal Ford parses an op-ed indicating reservoirs of support in the PRC establishment for North Korea’s formula of economic development via nuclear weapons.
Block Out the Noise by Visiting the Front Line: Baekryeong Island Reportage
SinoNK looks to Baekryeong Island for a change of pace from the weight of wartime rhetoric, even though it lies just a stone’s throw from North Korea.
South Korea: The New Nationalism in an Era of Strength and Prosperity
Sino-NK goes hunting for the new strand of assertive nationalism that has been slowly emerging in today’s era of “strong and prosperous” South Korea.
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