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 […]
Dai Bingguo Manages Not to Cry, and Other Details from the NK Diplomatic Quarter of Beijing
Wen Jiabao’s visit to the North Korean Embassy, previously reported on (via Chinese sources) here on SinoNK, has now been described by the Korean Central News Agency. As it turns out, Wen brought the PRC Ministers for both Commerce and Culture with him, indicating once again the desire to keep both economic and cultural ties […]
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