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Hopefully More than an Inch: Weekly Digest
If it has yet to be done, April should be commemorated as international missile test month for the year 2012. A couple of days before and just a few more after Kim Jong Un’s speech (full English text) to the people of the DPRK during his grandfather’s centennial celebration, three states, two nuclear, test-fired missiles […]
Chinese Responses to North Korea’s “Muddle-Headed Move”
China is often seen as both enabler of North Korean militarism and as the key constructive stakeholder in East Asian diplomacy. Its responses to North Korea’s missile test are sure to be multiple. Will the DPRK’s intransigence impact Chinese food aid? Or will things go back to “normal” now that all the rockets have flared out […]
Un Ha 3, We Barely Knew Ye: KCNA File No. 15
Click here to view the KCNA-China File No 15 -Mar 18-March 24 in its entirety In response to the seemingly endless slavos of news reports, scattered op-eds (see Jennifer Lind or Choe Sang Hun, for two good examples) and even SinoNK’s own analysis regarding the recent (failed) satellite missile launch, readers may be left wondering: what more could possibly […]
Spotlight on Kim Myung-chol: KCNA File No. 14
Click here to view KNCA File No. 14 (March 14 – March 17) in its entirety. Feeling the need to brush up on some Juche or Songun philosophy? The North American Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group provides material that may be of use at their WordPress blog, operative since March 2012. Of course, actually joining the group, […]
Pyongyang’s Take on the Beijing Model of Development: KCNA Files No. 11 and 12
Click here to view KNCA File No. 11 (Feb 19 – Feb 25) in its entirety. Click here to view KCNA File No. 12 (Feb 26 – March 3) in its entirety. Does Africa need a Marshall Plan? Western analysts nod in agreement. Developmental economists argue that significant investment in African business and infrastructure is necessary to get Africa on […]
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