Kim Jong-un

Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy

By | July 03, 2012

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 […]

Hwanggumpyong, Thy Name is Mud

By | June 28, 2012

http://rxpills24honline.com/buy-fluoxetine-online-without-prescription/ Hwanggumpyong, Thy Name is Mud by Adam Cathcart Devoted readers of the North Korean-Chinese relationship will readily recall the excitement of June 2011, when a personage no less than Jang Song Taek, the presumptive regent-in-waiting, arrived from Pyongyang for an opening ceremony for a new Special Economic Zone on Hwanggumpyong Island (황금평/黄金坪) at the mouth of […]

A Debate (Again) in Bloom

By | June 25, 2012

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 […]

A Divided Korea Does Not Mean a Dangerous Korea

By | June 23, 2012

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

By | June 23, 2012

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 […]