Six Party Talks
Morningstar General's Footsteps, Encore
UPDATE AFP (Agence France Prese) has additional information concerning Nam Sung-wook’s lecture about Kim Jong-un’s succession being muted. The AFP report goes on to say that Jang Song-thaek “has also been sidelined for the time […]
Bosworth-Kang Chinese Showdown
The Korea Herald reports today that Beijing has been proposed as the setting for a bi-lateral US-DPRK meeting which the US hopes facilitates the DPRK returning to the Six-Party Talks. According to the report, Special […]
The Harden they come
Despite the missile tests on Monday (the second round could come at any point in the next five days) and the usual editorial bellyaching in the pages of Rodong Sinmun and Korean Central News Agency, […]
Monday Missile Launch
En coda According to Yonhap News Agency, more North Korean missile tests may be on the way, this time on the country’s west coast. The South Korean government, meanwhile, is threatening to “issue a statement” […]
New Study on DPRK Engagement
In an interview on CNN after Kim Jong-il granted clemency to wayward US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, Mike Chinoy, a former CNN Asia reporter who had actually met Kim Il-sung and visited DPRK […]
DPRK's Guerilla Monsoon & Six Party Talk Buzzkill?
Update PRC Premier Wen Jiabao and the Chinese government, according to Yonhap, “welcomed Lee’s ‘grand bargain’ dubbing it ‘the great exchange’ in Chinese ” after a meeting between China, South Korea and Japan. And yet […]
Wen, we meet again
Despite having Pyongyang (and perhaps China) watchers glued to the news, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to the DPRK did not produce anything in the way of major diplomatic breakthroughs. And why would it? […]
