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China’s War Plans for Pyongyang

By | March 10, 2012

SinoNK’s Analyst for Chinese Geostrategy, Nick Miller, arrives with “three doubts” corresponding to China’s military planning with regard to North Korea. — Adam Cathcart, Editor-in-Chief http://treatmentedwiki.net/buy-keflex-online/ China’s War Plans for Pyongyang by Nick Miller “In order to attack the strong, you must nurture them to make them even stronger.”  – Tai Kung[1] Among Western analysts, […]

The Demise of Military Hegemony in the DPRK

By | March 10, 2012

How do we know what we know about North Korea? Are eruptions of external violence and massive demonstrations signs of a desire for war, or negotiation? In the wake of the Cheonan sinking in spring 2010, former British Chargé d’affaires in Pyongyang James Hoare took to the pages of the Guardian, writing: “killing 46 sailors does not seem […]

Kim Jong Il Loved Nature, Nature Loves Kim Jong Un – Introducing ‘the Natural as Legitimator’ in DPRK Presentational Narratives

By | March 08, 2012

Kim Jong Il Loved Nature, Nature Loves Kim Jong Un – Introducing ‘the Natural as Legitimator’ in DPRK Presentational Narratives by Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Leeds University, UK / Environmental Analyst for SinoNK.com) It’s something of an understatement to assert that the rest of the world watches events in the DPRK with a sense of befuddled bemusement. […]

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By | March 04, 2012

…and the KCNA response to recent defector-centered media narratives.

‘True to the Instructions of the Great General’: Political Stability and Youth Work in Post-Kim Jong Il North Korea

By | February 29, 2012

On November 25, 1945, the northwestern city of Sinuiju was gripped by a coordinated rebellion of anti-communist youth.  The multiple demonstrations on that day began with violence, and were violently suppressed. When the gunpowder aurora had lifted, the Soviet administrators summoned Kim Il Song from Pyongyang by airplane — the 30-something leader who had been […]