Yongusil 4: Lifting the Fog, British Embassy Seoul, September 16
Next Monday, Daily NK presents a brand new academic forum, which brings together Professor Andrei Lankov, Curtis Melvin and Sino-NK Co-editor Christopher Green at the British Embassy in Seoul to discuss “digital transformation.”
Charismatic Environs: From Local Landscape to National Landschaft
As this sweeping essay illustrates, Kim Jong-un’s obsession with turf and landscape, far from being gratuitous, is in fact part of the North Korean leadership’s art of imbuing the very land of the DPRK with charismatic qualities.
Yongusil 3: Sino-NK at JEAS, Nottingham on September 5th
Sino-NK debuts as a panel organizer as Dr. Adam Cathcart, Dr. Robert Winstanley-Chesters and Christopher Green meet in Nottingham for a panel at the prestigious JEAS Conference. The subject? “Redefining North Korea.”
A Tale of Two and a Half Visits: Wu Dawei, and Rodman vs. The King
Chief Editor Adam Cathcart reviews the North Korean approach to diplomacy in the summer of 2013, zooming slowly but surely in on the extraordinary case of Robert King’s (non)-collection of Kenneth Bae from a Pyongyang hospital.
Yongusil 2: Cathcart and Green at EAHRNK, London on September 3rd
EAHRNK is a new North Korean human rights group based in London. On September 3 the group will hold its inaugural conference, and Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green will be there to speak about media representations of North Korea in Europe and South Korea.
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