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Sino-North Korean Friendship as the “Last Instructions of General Secretary Kim Jong Il” : KCNA China File No. 18
Sino-North Korean Friendship as the “Last Instructions of General Secretary Kim Jong Il” : KCNA China File No. 18 by Evan Koepfler Of the 21 stories published about China by KCNA for this two-week period, 14 relating in a specific way the relationship between China and the DPRK. As with the previous KCNA-China File, this […]
Deer Musk and Female Dominance: North Korea in the 2012 London Olympics
Deer Musk and Female Dominance: North Korea in the 2012 London Olympics by Benjamin R. Young In a matter of days, the welcome ceremony for the 2012 Olympics will commence and the games will officially begin. If past experience is any guide, world media will be mainly focusing on the three major athletic powerhouse nations […]
Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy
Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy by Darcie Draudt This past Friday’s SinoNK weekly digest gave but short shrift to a rather significant working paper released in June of this year. Examining a recent survey of 300 North Korean refugees, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland examine the […]
A Debate (Again) in Bloom
A Debate (Again) in Bloom by Steven Denney In a recent Sino-NK post, “Keeping Up with 38 North,” Adam Cathcart points to an assertion made by James Church (“Keep Your Eye on the Duck,” 38 North, June 19) that Kim Jong-un “may in fact be initiating ‘creeping Dengism.’” Church’s [1] suggestion that reform may indeed be […]
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