Ko Young-hee: Joseon’s Nameless, Newly Canonized Mother
A sister, lover, or just good friend? As the speculation fury over Kim Jong-un’s plus-one at the recent Moranbong Band performance suggests, it may behoove analysts and North Korea watchers to be pay closer attention to the women accompanying the Great Successor than the man himself. SinoNK’s analyst for Gender Issues, Darcie Draudt, leaves the identity […]
Editor’s Note
Summer arrives in earnest at Sino-NK with several new additions to our team of analysts, including recent contributors Darcie Draudt in Seoul, Erin Hoshibata in Hawai’i and Nick Miller in Washington, D.C. With a revitalized and global Staff, we have a strong lineup of essays planned for the summer, along with our customary level (other adjectives […]
Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy
Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK Economy by Darcie Draudt This past Friday’s SinoNK weekly digest gave but short shrift to a rather significant working paper released in June of this year. Examining a recent survey of 300 North Korean refugees, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland examine the […]
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