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North Korea’s China Connection: Documenting Transnational Cadre Ties during the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1949
North Korea’s China Connection: Documenting Transnational Cadre Ties during the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1949 by Charles Kraus The history of Chinese-North Korean relations has been dominated by the largest personalities. While it is easy to understand why Kim Il Sung and Mao Zedong have loomed large over the historiography, this tendency to focus on “the […]
The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16
The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16 by Roger Cavazos and Evan Koepfler KCNA File No 16, China-Japan Edition -May 15 – June 4, 2012 Evan Koepfler captures the most salient issues in KCNA – pure analytical lodestone. This period, in particular, was key because DPRK seized 28 Chinese fishermen and their four […]
Insidious Songbun: Roundup of Recent HRNK Panel
Insidious Songbun: Roundup of Recent HRNK Panel For many years, few substantive sources on Songbun – North Korea’s social classification system – have existed in English. A new report from Human Rights North Korea changes all that. Robert Collins recently presented his work “Marked For Life: Songbun, Korea’s Social Classification System,” before a panel hosted […]
Weekly Digest: LSE, Working Papers and Cuban Dancers
Here is a quick round-up of recent SinoNK staff activity and a video tribute to Corea del Norte. – Steven Denney, Assistant Editor Understanding the Trade-Security Nexus in the KORUS FTA | Economics does not live on an island, she co-habitats with security in a realm known otherwise as Northeast Asia. Assistant Editor Steven Denney and […]
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