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CCP Rewards North Korean Peace Offensive with Good Press / Note on EU Sanctions
Occasionally Xinhua relays a very halcyon story about North Korea in the Chinese press, hearkening back in tone to the 1950s, when all was well in the Sino-North Korean relationship. (The 1950s always...
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North Korea Notes
The Hu-Obama Summit has already been subjected to some of the most intense lobbying pressures known to man. From big business to human rights groups to the defense hawks in both countries, both...
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Smartphone Border Run Shamaness North Korea Remittance China Friendly Kim’s...
KCNA, the North Korean “news” agency, has a fascinating piece on problems caused by smartphones in US prisons (thus simultaneously bashing America and reminding readers that mobile technology is...
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‘Succession is the Issue’: Rap Ditty on the Kim Clan and Sino-North Korean...
If you want footnotes or typed lyrics, then they shall be produced. Otherwise, enjoy this little ditty, which began in the pre-dawn with a civilized train ride and a consequent eyeful of Mount Ranier...
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Melodious Plateau: Politics and Song at Losar (The Tibetan New Year)
[This is a guest post by Kristiana Henderson of Pacific Lutheran University, based upon research begun in Tibet in October 2010 and continued for the duration of that fall in Chengdu and western...
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Edward Said as Prose Stylist
I recently was confronted with the absolute revelation of the parallel career of Edward Said, comparative literature professor at New York University and famous analyst of the Arab world, as nothing...
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Shufflin’ Over the DMZ
Sometimes it is good just to just slip into the big unifying stream of the zeitgeist and leave the big gnarly hopes to be expressed by others, even if the second verse is gratuitous, thus:
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Blockages and Breakthroughts: Cultural Diplomacy and North Korea
[A cross-post of an essay which I posted on SinoNK.com. — AC] Yesterday, Corée_Actualités launched a short missive which functioned as a kind of bouleversement of the normal: a 90-member delegation of...
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Researching the Moranbong Band: An Abstract
Even before Kim Jong-il’s tremulously-announced death in Dec. 2011, the North Korean musical-cultural apparatus-elite-complex was in valedictory mode, producing huge orchestral canatas that expressed a...
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A lot of people seem to be interested in North Korean cultural diplomacy these days, so the (often peer-reviewed/probably badly flawed/usually enormously fun) work which I have been doing on this issue...
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