Posts Tagged ‘KCNA’

Breaking Down Signals in North Korean New Years Editorials: Tweet Barrage

By | January 01, 2012

There will be ample time to discern and dissemble whether or how North Korea is taking what China continues to urge (e.g. the path of “reform and opening up” and a reduction in military expenditures) but there are all manner of clues present in the New Years Editorials posted at KCNA yesterday. The editorials can […]

Updated KCNA-China File

By | January 01, 2012

Here is the most updated version of the KCNA coverage of Sino-North Korean interactions in the period after Kim Jong Il’s death: KCNA File No 1 – December 19-26, 2011. Some further analysis of the data is forthcoming, but the following trends seem evident in the materials: – The families of revolutionaries connected to Kim Il […]

Chinese Homage in KCNA: A Compilation

By | December 27, 2011

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 […]

KCNA Fragments

By | December 22, 2011

The Chinese media is much faster at picking up stories from the North Korean media at the moment, but at least for English readers, KCNA’s page finally reemerges in a blaze of Kim Jong Il glory, being stuck at the moment on December 20. Full quotes are provided for the courtesy of readers in South […]

Socialist Upswing in Pyongyang

By | December 04, 2011

D.W. Feldman, the KCNA Coordinator for this blog, has compiled Socialism is a Science Editorials and Reportage Juche100, a group of essays which fairly swashbuckle rhetorically into a discussion of the declining West and the justice of Korean socialism, with particular reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement.