Posts Tagged ‘Rodong Sinmun’
Gold, Ideology, and Self-Criticism in Chinese Coverage of the Jang Purge
Coverage of the fallout from the purge of Jang Sung-taek has been both abundant and fascinating, and this is particularly true for Chinese readers. Sino-NK newcomer Emile Dirks makes sure that the rest of the world doesn’t miss out on the energetic media expression of Beijing’s alarm at unusual North Korean conduct.
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.
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.”
Yongusil 8: NK-News.net and the “STatistical Analyzer of Language IN north korean propaganda”
Yongusil 8 reminds the researcher, reader and analyzer of a once popular now forlorn, yet still useful research tool for mining the KCNA archives
“Patriotism Begins from Love of Courtyard:” Sepho and the Scaling of the Environmental
No one covers North Korea’s expressions of the “Byungjin line” with more panache than Robert Winstanley-Chesters, who examines the role of families and local neighborhood units in cultivating North Korean legitimacy.
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