Posts Tagged ‘North Korea’
Mahan Over the Tumen Delta: China’s Naval Ambitions for Rason
China’s role as a trading power along the North Korean frontier is already widely respected, but what about the PRC’s naval ambitions in North Korea? This essay looks at potential Chinese uses for the North Korean port of Rason.
China’s Headache: Pressure Points on North Korea
Analysts are not cartoonists, nor are they plaintive photographers who can stun us into insight in a single instant. In a media environment where one is often provoked to, in Aidan Foster-Carter’s phrase, “cue the sneer” toward East Asia’s one-party states, the analyst has to plunge ahead anyway with meaningful work. Thus Nick Miller, SinoNK’s […]
Spotlight on Kim Myung-chol: KCNA File No. 14
Click here to view KNCA File No. 14 (March 14 – March 17) in its entirety. Feeling the need to brush up on some Juche or Songun philosophy? The North American Juche-Songun Ideas Study Group provides material that may be of use at their WordPress blog, operative since March 2012. Of course, actually joining the group, […]
The Cruelest Month: Chinese Media Commentary on the Missile Launch Preparations
The Cruelest Month: Chinese Media Commentary on the Missile Launch Preparations by Adam Cathcart The New York Times, in a fascinating look at the outlook for another nuclear test in the DPRK, would have us believe that Xinhua was mainly obfuscating about the pending launch, but the truth is somewhat more complicated. The following Chinese […]
Acuto, Strategic Distrust and the Pivot: Weekly Digest
When it comes to North Korea and Northeast Asian security issues, analysis spilling from the pens of Western academics tends to focus on American decision makers and United States grand strategy in the region. In this weekly digest installment, SinoNK focuses on three recent publications that deal with, in in some form or another, a […]
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