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 […]
Where was Jang Song-thaek?
(N.B.: some material in this posting is drawn from my forthcoming short biography on Jang Song-thaek The Juche Jump (Hey, Mr. Jang!) which will appear in print at the end of the month) The SK […]
KN-02 Tests Not for an Outside Audience (Necessarily)
The DPRK knew that conducting tests on the KN-02 surface-to-surface missiles would attract external attention. Despite brushing off the tests as routine military exercises, South Korea is entirely justified in its concerns. The South Korean […]
Platform Order
The good people at Northeast Asia Matters: The Korean Peninsula have published a translation of Hanguk Ilbo‘s story on the MOU’s report on the platform seating order during the July memorial meeting commemorating the 15th […]
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, […]
KJI: Live and in Person
The English site for DailyNK features a summary of a series of blogposts written by Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV reporter Rose Luqiu Luwei, who accompanied Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on his recent trip to the […]
Family Business: an Update
I have added all remaining information to the Kim Family page. I may expand the scope to selected cousins and in-laws, but this should edify for the time being.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm Sixty-Four?
The Korean Workers’ Party is officially sixty-four years old. Perhaps the 12 October missile tests were a commemoration not only of the KWP, but its steadfast support for songun chongch’i. The KWP subsidized a fireworks […]
The unofficial official spokesman for the DPRK
The editors at Asia Times are not afraid of ideas. They circulate some truly brilliant essays on global security and international commerce, as well the fringey, unrealistic ramblings of ex-60’s radical American academics (these people […]
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