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Post-Soulevement
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. Thus the silence. At...
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Radiation Reported in China’s Heilongjiang Province
Thus reports China Daily, stating that radiation has been found in the water in Fuyuan county [抚远县], which is China’s easternmost point in the northeastern most province, very close to the Russian...
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North Korea Notes
North Korean media reports that a small amount of radioactivity from Japan has reached the DPRK. How does a regime that is so good at depicting Japan as a source of constant threat assure people that...
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North Korea: Examination Materials
I recently completed a month-long lecture series on North Korean-Chinese relations at Pacific Lutheran University. Because these lectures were occasioned by a course I teach at PLU (hell yes I teach...
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The News from North Korea: Relations with China, Aerial Drone Denunciations,...
Since the emergence of putative successor Kim Jong Eun into the public eye, the North Korean news media — specifically the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA — has taken pains to publish more content...
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From the Print World
Suggested Readings in Sino-North Korean Relations: Alisa Jones, “Nationalizing the Past: Korea in Chinese History,” Journal of Northeast Asian History, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter 2009): 103-140. [full text...
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On the Inoki Visit to North Korea
Inoki Kanji in Tokyo, May 20, 2014 Given the amount of public interest in the just-concluded visit of Japanese and American wrestlers to Pyongyang, led by lawmaker (and former wrestling star) Kanji...
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New Koguryo Research in Pyongyang, or, How to Revive a Historical Dispute on...
It doesn’t take much skill at reading tea-leaves in Chinese or English to recognize that Kim Jong-un’s letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and Zhang Dejiang on the PRC’s National Day...
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On the PRC Ambassador in Pyongyang, ‘Comfort Women’ Activists, and the Women...
This morning I turned on my computer and immediately became wrapped up in a somewhat quixotic quest to find the origins of a rumor. The rumor being that the Chinese Ambassador in Pyongyang ‘had yet to...
View Article“The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948
“’The Enemies Made This Possible’: Sino-North Korean relations since 1948” with Yujin Lim, in Adrian Buzo, ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 131-140....
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