Satellites and Sanctions: KCNA Goes Quiet on China
One-month removed from death of Kim Jong Il, the Korean Central News Agency reported fewer stories about developments in China and Chinese-Korean relations during the week of 15 January – 21 January 2012. The KCNA paid lip service to Chinese technological developments and offered support to the PRC’s stance on international issues (Iranian sanctions), and highlighted […]
Blog Buzz
We’re off to an excellent start in the Kim Jong Un era at SinoNK.com, about six weeks after the site officially launched on December 19, 2011. Foremost, we are excited about the quality of the analysis and of the team. Even a cursory glance at the Staff page or our Research page (which, like the […]
Think-Tank Watch
Steven Denney is editor-in-chief of PEAR, Yonsei University’s graduate journal, a leading voice at the Political Cartel (East Asia) blog, and a master’s student in Global Studies at Yonsei University. In the “week in review” for January 30 through February 3, 2012, Denney, Think-Tank Analyst for SinoNK.com, compiles a list of recent articles on North Korea […]
Introduction to North Korea’s Rason Economic Trade Zone
Will Rason, the DPRK’s bold experiment to attract foreign investment and introduce a sliver of market oriented reforms, go boom or bust? North Korea has toyed with special economic zones in areas along the Chinese border in the past, but the results have never been transformative or even economically significant—there is still no North Korean […]
Thick Black Lines: On Chongjin, 1947
Thick Black Lines: On Chongjin, 1947 by Adam Cathcart and Charles Kraus On Data | The notion of unverified rumors from North Korea is anything but new. Long before the World Wide Web, China Mobile cell phone penetration into North Pyong’an province, or the very formation of the Daily NK, the Central Intelligence Agency was […]
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