Posts Tagged ‘KCNA’
Technology Linking: The DPRK’s “Quiet Opening”
Jimin Lee unfolds more sanction-busting tactics bringing the North Korean television scene up to date from Beijing. Intro by Roger Cavazos.
KCNA Sings China’s Praises: KCNA File No. 21
Hot and Cold: Assessing patterns in the all-or-nothing treatment of China in the North Korean media in the week of Wang Jiarui’s meetings with Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.
Korean War Revivalism in DPRK: Historical Consolidation and Personality Cults
Materials show how the DPRK has been changing its own Korean war narrative — and keeping it stable. The return to fulsome gratefulness to China in the last week of July, and the in-depth discussion of the glories of socialist internationalism before that, showed that North Korea seems determined not to go forward absent the protective shield of the Chinese People’s Republic.
Soft Power on a Hardened Path: On DPRK Musical Performance
SinoNK Performing Arts Analyst Jimin Lee compares the Moranbong Band debut to the performative politics of a missile launch. Intro by Adam Cathcart.
The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16
The Boatman’s Silent Dance : KCNA File No. 16 by Roger Cavazos and Evan Koepfler KCNA File No 16, China-Japan Edition -May 15 – June 4, 2012 Evan Koepfler captures the most salient issues in KCNA – pure analytical lodestone. This period, in particular, was key because DPRK seized 28 Chinese fishermen and their four […]