Chinese Homage in KCNA: A Compilation
A longer document dossier is in the works on the Chinese response to Kim Jong Il’s death, but the North Koreans, in the meantime, have decidedly been kind to the PRC in their various ways in the dispatches of the Korean Central News Agency. It may be a touch ragged, but the full text of […]
Berlin-Peking-Pyongyang: On Linguistic Values at SinoNK.com, and a Note to German Readers
There is a “statement of principles” or “values statements” presently being drafted for SinoNK, but unquestionably three of those values are going to be on display in the following week: 1) We need access to more information about Sino-North Korean relations in more languages; 2) We at SinoNK.com want to reach the widest possible audience […]
A Yanji Sketch, and Notes on the Dandong Leadership
Along the frontier between North Korea’s North Hamgyong province and the PRC’s Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region, journalists, according to Chosun Ilbo, have been encountered problems with Chinese police. Not so for Jeremy Page of the Wall Street Journal, who files a report which, amid all the other often completely baseless bloviating about rumors in Pyongyang, […]
Assessing China’s Outlook on Kim Jong Eun: New Essay
Please see: Adam Cathcart, “Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Eun Era,” The China Beat, December 23, 2011.
Is this a Cult of Personality? KCNA Documents
As Kim Jong Il leaves the scene, surely someone in Pyongyang is having their best week ever as a professional. More to the point, the folks at Korean Central News Agency have gone into overdrive with hagiography. D.W. Feldman, the editor-at-large of SinoNK, has compiled some of the recent descriptions of Kim Jong Il; they […]
Scott Snyder: NK Should Consider the US as a Strategic Counterweight to Chinese Hugs, and Other Analysis
Obviously a great deal has been written in the past few days which deserves discussion. Scott Snyder, probably the foremost scholarly voice on Sino-North Korean relations (though he has plenty of competition — just check the sidebar of this blog) has an interview with the Council on Foreign Relations which is worth reading in full. […]
“The North Korean Succession”: An Introduction
Charles Kraus is a veteran of the North Korean International Documentation Project, a frequently published peer-reviewed historian of the PRC borderlands in the 1950s, and is presently working for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Kraus is also an Affiliate Scholar for SinoNK.com. In the following introduction to “The North Korean Succession,” a CIA […]
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The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea
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Yongusil 94: Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands
Adam Cathcart | July 9, 2018
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Change and Continuity in North Korean Foreign Policy at the Dawn of the Millennium
Yujin Lim | March 10, 2020 -
Understanding North Korea: Foreign Relations of North Korea in 2000
Yujin Lim | November 4, 2019 -
North Korean Citizens in Changbai: Social Insurance, Residency Rights, and Chinese Informants
Adam Cathcart | January 21, 2019
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Yongusil 101: South Korea between Russia-US Great Power Tensions
Sino-NK | October 30, 2020 -
Yongusil 100: Mongolia and the Korean Security Crisis
Sino-NK | June 29, 2020 -
Yongusil 99: The DPRK Nuclear Crisis and Moscow’s Pivot Toward Beijing
Sino-NK | April 6, 2020
