Parsing Those Thriced-Cursed Acts of Treachery
By throwing so much mud at Jang Sung-taek in a blatant effort to justify its pre-ordained wish to execute him, the DPRK government made it harder to establish the value of the judgment itself. Adam Cathcart gave some passages the once-over in this piece, which was published by The Atlantic on Friday.
Yongusil 21: North Korean Review on the Unhasu Orchestra in Paris and the AP in Pyongyang
The Unhasu Orchestra has disappeared from North Korean cultural life. Adam Cathcart and Steven Denney explore that orchestra’s role (and that of the AP) in diplomacy within North Korea’s political repertoire, in a newly-published scholarly article for the North Korean Review.
Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: Saegyehwa Politics and South Korea in the Age of Globalization
Steven Denney investigates politics and the political in the ROK during 2013, a new Park era, but the continuation of Saegyehwa/Globalization politics.
Sino-NK 2013 Rewind: The Byungjin Line and North Korea in an Era of Songun Politics
Extensively analyzed on Sino-NK in 2013, for the second of a pair of Sino-NK 2013 Rewind pieces, Peter Ward returns to Byungjin’s source with an investigation of its ur-text, April’s “Nuke and Peace.”
Hong, Jang, and the Mysterious Railroad Deal
A South Korean lawmaker reports that North Korea and China concluded an agreement on a high-speed rail link from Kaesong to Beijing on the very day that Jang Sung-taek was arrested. Christopher Green investigates.
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