Rason
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.
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 […]
Introduction to North Korea’s Rason Economic Trade Zone
Will Rason, the DPRK’s bold experiment to attract foreign investment and introduce a sliver of market oriented reforms, go boom or bust? North Korea has toyed with special economic zones in areas along the Chinese border in the past, but the results have never been transformative or even economically significant—there is still no North Korean […]
Thick Black Lines: On Chongjin, 1947
Thick Black Lines: On Chongjin, 1947 by Adam Cathcart and Charles Kraus On Data | The notion of unverified rumors from North Korea is anything but new. Long before the World Wide Web, China Mobile cell phone penetration into North Pyong’an province, or the very formation of the Daily NK, the Central Intelligence Agency was […]
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop—Recent Activity on the Sino-DPRK border
As was discussed in-depth nearly precisely a year ago on One Free Korea, the North Korean border with China tends to be a place where memory goes to die. That is to say, when it comes to news reports about the border, a tabula rasa among readers is commonly assumed. Whenever the DPRK’s malignancy needs […]
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