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Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. PETER WARD | SINO-NK Local and Limited: The Sociopolitical Implications of Segmented Marketization in North Korea . By Peter Ward | March 21, 2016. In the fifth part of our contemporary marketization series, Philo Kim takes a sociologist’s lens to the North Korean economy to find out why marketization hasn’t led to large-scale change or transformation. FRAMING EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH KOREA: FROM FUNGUS Kim Il-sung on Hydrology and Forestry | Kim Il-sung’s text “Let us Expedite the Introduction of a Supply of Running Water” from 1973 ostensibly focuses on a sector very much of interest to this author: hydrological engineering and water supply.However, the text opens up in scope to reveal a sectoral focus that is equally interesting and loosely connected, but on the surface very different. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Brazil and Mexico’s Relations with North Korea. Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK. ONE FAMILY, TWO STORIES: RUSSIAN-KOREAN REPATRIATE The former was especially common in the 1990s and early 2000s, while the repatriation of Russian-Koreans to their ethnic homeland intensified from the mid-2010s onwards. In a new piece for Sino-NK, Bella Didigova exploits the affordances of self-broadcast technology to analyse “The Tea Party”, a videoblog in which twoRussian-Korean
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Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. PETER WARD | SINO-NK Local and Limited: The Sociopolitical Implications of Segmented Marketization in North Korea . By Peter Ward | March 21, 2016. In the fifth part of our contemporary marketization series, Philo Kim takes a sociologist’s lens to the North Korean economy to find out why marketization hasn’t led to large-scale change or transformation. FRAMING EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH KOREA: FROM FUNGUS Kim Il-sung on Hydrology and Forestry | Kim Il-sung’s text “Let us Expedite the Introduction of a Supply of Running Water” from 1973 ostensibly focuses on a sector very much of interest to this author: hydrological engineering and water supply.However, the text opens up in scope to reveal a sectoral focus that is equally interesting and loosely connected, but on the surface very different. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE MANCHURIAN MYTH: HISTORY AND POWER IN NORTH KOREA The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea. As Kim Yo-jong’s role becomes more prominent in the North Korean system, benefits can accrue from revisiting the foundations of the state itself, and the stories that North Koreans are taught. North Korea was brought into being by Soviet power and shaped by Soviet politicalstructures and
THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. IMAGINING A SINO-US CONFLICT: REVIEW OF KIM JIN-MYUNG’S A good many knowledgeable people in the United States and elsewhere have been on edge since early 2017 over the possibility that the Trump administration could decide to rain “fire and fury” upon the DPRK if it continues to test the delivery systems that Pyongyang hopes will propel its nuclear warheads all the way to the continental UnitedStates.
UNDER THE JUNIPER TREE: THE 2012 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON In South Korea it was rumored that he had already been purged. Jang did reappear, but there were only 13 media appearances up to mid-April 2013. In 2012, Jang had accompanied Kim Jong-un 102 times. To this day, the assassination attempt on Kim Jong-un is top secret, with only a few people knowing that it ever happened. INVESTMENT RISKS AND RIDDLES: ZHEJIANG BUSINESSMEN AND THE Investment Risks and Riddles: Zhejiang Businessmen and the DPRK. Part of the allure of Chinese sources is the promise of fresh information on Sino-North Korean economic relations, and the increasing unavailability of official data — such as the disappearance of data on trade with the DPRK from provincial yearbooks since 2008 —redirects
ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Brazil and Mexico’s Relations with North Korea. Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK. ONE FAMILY, TWO STORIES: RUSSIAN-KOREAN REPATRIATE The former was especially common in the 1990s and early 2000s, while the repatriation of Russian-Koreans to their ethnic homeland intensified from the mid-2010s onwards. In a new piece for Sino-NK, Bella Didigova exploits the affordances of self-broadcast technology to analyse “The Tea Party”, a videoblog in which twoRussian-Korean
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Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. PETER WARD | SINO-NK Local and Limited: The Sociopolitical Implications of Segmented Marketization in North Korea . By Peter Ward | March 21, 2016. In the fifth part of our contemporary marketization series, Philo Kim takes a sociologist’s lens to the North Korean economy to find out why marketization hasn’t led to large-scale change or transformation. FRAMING EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH KOREA: FROM FUNGUS Kim Il-sung on Hydrology and Forestry | Kim Il-sung’s text “Let us Expedite the Introduction of a Supply of Running Water” from 1973 ostensibly focuses on a sector very much of interest to this author: hydrological engineering and water supply.However, the text opens up in scope to reveal a sectoral focus that is equally interesting and loosely connected, but on the surface very different. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Brazil and Mexico’s Relations with North Korea. Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK. ONE FAMILY, TWO STORIES: RUSSIAN-KOREAN REPATRIATE The former was especially common in the 1990s and early 2000s, while the repatriation of Russian-Koreans to their ethnic homeland intensified from the mid-2010s onwards. In a new piece for Sino-NK, Bella Didigova exploits the affordances of self-broadcast technology to analyse “The Tea Party”, a videoblog in which twoRussian-Korean
STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. PETER WARD | SINO-NK Local and Limited: The Sociopolitical Implications of Segmented Marketization in North Korea . By Peter Ward | March 21, 2016. In the fifth part of our contemporary marketization series, Philo Kim takes a sociologist’s lens to the North Korean economy to find out why marketization hasn’t led to large-scale change or transformation. FRAMING EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH KOREA: FROM FUNGUS Kim Il-sung on Hydrology and Forestry | Kim Il-sung’s text “Let us Expedite the Introduction of a Supply of Running Water” from 1973 ostensibly focuses on a sector very much of interest to this author: hydrological engineering and water supply.However, the text opens up in scope to reveal a sectoral focus that is equally interesting and loosely connected, but on the surface very different. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
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Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations.ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea). SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit “NIGHTMARE INVESTMENT”: DOCUMENTING NORTH KOREA’S ABUSE OF “Nightmare Investment”: Documenting North Korea’s Abuse of the Haicheng Xiyang Group. by Adam Cathcart. Having just arrived in Beijing – staking out the North Korean Embassy on my very own “Jang Song Taek Watch”, as it were – I’m looking everywhere in the papers for any reference to the devastating accusations by the Liaoning mining consortium Haicheng Xiyang (known more widely NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. DICTATORIAL CONSENSUS: SOUTH KOREAN IDENTITY AND POPULAR Dictatorial Consensus: South Korean Identity and Popular Remembrance of Park Chung-hee. South Korea’s Military Revolutionary Committee four days after the May 16 Coup in 1961. Park Chung-hee is on the right, at the shoulder of the nominal head of the committee, ROK Army Chief-of-Staff Chang Do-yong. | Image: Wikicommons. As befits a Korean IMAGINING A SINO-US CONFLICT: REVIEW OF KIM JIN-MYUNG’S A good many knowledgeable people in the United States and elsewhere have been on edge since early 2017 over the possibility that the Trump administration could decide to rain “fire and fury” upon the DPRK if it continues to test the delivery systems that Pyongyang hopes will propel its nuclear warheads all the way to the continental UnitedStates.
INVESTMENT RISKS AND RIDDLES: ZHEJIANG BUSINESSMEN AND THE Investment Risks and Riddles: Zhejiang Businessmen and the DPRK. Part of the allure of Chinese sources is the promise of fresh information on Sino-North Korean economic relations, and the increasing unavailability of official data — such as the disappearance of data on trade with the DPRK from provincial yearbooks since 2008 —redirects
ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK. ONE FAMILY, TWO STORIES: RUSSIAN-KOREAN REPATRIATE The former was especially common in the 1990s and early 2000s, while the repatriation of Russian-Koreans to their ethnic homeland intensified from the mid-2010s onwards. In a new piece for Sino-NK, Bella Didigova exploits the affordances of self-broadcast technology to analyse “The Tea Party”, a videoblog in which twoRussian-Korean
STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube RIGHTER THAN YOU THINK: NATIONAL SECURITY CONSERVATISM AND Conservative Campaigning: Moon Jae-in and National Security | There is no doubt Moon was aware of the national security conservatism as he campaigned for the presidency in the first half of 2017. Candidate Moon and his more astute advisors will have seen that the days of a financially generous North Korea policy were not going to return whether they wished it or not. HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK. ONE FAMILY, TWO STORIES: RUSSIAN-KOREAN REPATRIATE The former was especially common in the 1990s and early 2000s, while the repatriation of Russian-Koreans to their ethnic homeland intensified from the mid-2010s onwards. In a new piece for Sino-NK, Bella Didigova exploits the affordances of self-broadcast technology to analyse “The Tea Party”, a videoblog in which twoRussian-Korean
STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube RIGHTER THAN YOU THINK: NATIONAL SECURITY CONSERVATISM AND Conservative Campaigning: Moon Jae-in and National Security | There is no doubt Moon was aware of the national security conservatism as he campaigned for the presidency in the first half of 2017. Candidate Moon and his more astute advisors will have seen that the days of a financially generous North Korea policy were not going to return whether they wished it or not. HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea). SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. JANGMADANG | SINO-NK The Jangmadang is Sino-NK’s marketplace for fresh ideas. In keeping with the tradition established by its eponymous counterpart in North Korea, our Jangmadang, managed by Sino-NK staff, provides short, snappy, but vital information on the latest documentary research and news. Unlike most English-language outlets, you will find that amajority
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A Roundtable Review of Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. By Sino-NK | October 11, 2017. Sheena Greitens examines the ways coercion is employed in authoritarian regimes in her new book, adding theoretical and empirical insights to the literature on authoritarian regime durability. Sino-NK reviews her UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA: FOREIGN RELATIONS OF NORTH This document is a translation from the first of what has since become an annual publication from an arm of the Ministry of Unification in Seoul, Understanding North Korea 2000 . The translated section is from the first part of “Chapter 3. Foreign Relations of North Korea.”. The original document can be found here. QUANTIFYING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THE NORTHEAST DURING Quantifying Civilian Casualties in the Northeast during the Chinese Civil War. Ah Yang, “At Ease” (Hong Kong, 1948). Via Adam Cathcart, “Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Cartoons, 1946-1951,” in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: History, Medicine, Media, Law, Art, and Literature, Haun Saussy and RogeDesForges
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Delegations Galore: Signs of a Continuing Rift in Sino-NK Relations by Brian Gleason Although China and North Korea have maintained strong bilateral ties for decades, North Korea’s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons, advanced missile systems and “satellite launches” has continued to take its toll on the relationship. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit FRAMING EPISTEMIC COMMUNITIES IN NORTH KOREA: FROM FUNGUS Kim Il-sung on Hydrology and Forestry | Kim Il-sung’s text “Let us Expedite the Introduction of a Supply of Running Water” from 1973 ostensibly focuses on a sector very much of interest to this author: hydrological engineering and water supply.However, the text opens up in scope to reveal a sectoral focus that is equally interesting and loosely connected, but on the surface very different. NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK.ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK.ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. JANGMADANG | SINO-NK The Jangmadang is Sino-NK’s marketplace for fresh ideas. In keeping with the tradition established by its eponymous counterpart in North Korea, our Jangmadang, managed by Sino-NK staff, provides short, snappy, but vital information on the latest documentary research and news. Unlike most English-language outlets, you will find that amajority
ADAM CATHCART
The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea. By Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green | June 17, 2020. As the smoke clears from Kaesong and succession talk swirls around Kim Yo-jong, Sino-NK revisits one of the key foundations of North Korean history education.CHRISTOPHER GREEN
The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea . By Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green | June 17, 2020. As the smoke clears from Kaesong and succession talk swirls around Kim Yo-jong, Sino-NK revisits one of the key foundations of North Korean history education. THE MANCHURIAN MYTH: HISTORY AND POWER IN NORTH KOREA The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea. As Kim Yo-jong’s role becomes more prominent in the North Korean system, benefits can accrue from revisiting the foundations of the state itself, and the stories that North Koreans are taught. North Korea was brought into being by Soviet power and shaped by Soviet politicalstructures and
QUANTIFYING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THE NORTHEAST DURING Quantifying Civilian Casualties in the Northeast during the Chinese Civil War. Ah Yang, “At Ease” (Hong Kong, 1948). Via Adam Cathcart, “Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Cartoons, 1946-1951,” in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: History, Medicine, Media, Law, Art, and Literature, Haun Saussy and RogeDesForges
ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube PURGES, BAEKDU, AND THE MORANBONG BAND: DATA POINTS AROUND Purges, Baekdu, and the Moranbong Band: Data Points around General Hyon. by Adam Cathcart. The headline from the intelligence assessment in Seoul was indeed shocking: North Korea’s nominal head of defense, Hyon Yong-chol, was reportedly executed in a gory fashion for, among other things, falling asleep in a meeting with Kim Jong-un. SOUTH KOREAN DEMOCRACY: CONSOLIDATED OR NOT? South Korea is slipping and sliding across a slick patch in the history of its 30-year experiment with democracy. Ever since Park Geun-hye came to power there has been talk of regression into authoritarianism, a claim which on the balance of the evidence seemsoverblown.
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK.ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTSABOUT USFEATUREDRESEARCH ROOMJANGMADANGSTAFFCONTRIBUTOR GUIDELINES Sino-NK has looked at the roots of Brazil’s engagement with the Korean War armistice, with a nod to the 50,000 Koreans resident in the country. In this essay, Anthony Rinna looks back to 2017, when Brazil and Mexico showed a notable contrast in their approaches to the DPRK.ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. SINO-NK | SINO-NK IS A RESEARCH WEBSITE FOR SINOLOGISTS Sino-NK is a scholarly collective of young Sinologists and Koreanists dedicated to documenting and analyzing the borderland dynamics, transnational ties, and history of Northeast Asia. THE SINCHEON MASSACRE: HISTORICAL FACT AND The history of the Korean War is pockmarked with acts of the most abject cruelty. It is this, mixed with a dollop of the lingering anguish of war and a dose of determination to play fast and loose with anything resembling the truth, that makes reconciliation on the Korean peninsula seem like such a distant, nay hopeless, dream. NORTH KOREAN NATIONALISM: LESSONS FROM PYONGYANG North Korea Nationalism: Lessons from Pyongyang1) This essay was written following extensive debate with Christopher Green, and forms part of the joint project Reproducing Contested Identities and Social Structures on the Korean Peninsula. This research was supported by Academy of Korean Studies Grant AKS-2015-R-49. by Steven Denney. THE PAST AND PRESENT OF NORTH KOREAN BELLIGERENCE: RANGOON The Past and Present of North Korean Belligerence: Rangoon 1983. by Eungseo Kim. One month after a South Korean civilian aircraft (KAL 007) was shot down over Russia by the Soviet Union in September 1983, East Asia was plunged into controversy once again by another communist regime: North Korea. The occasion was an official South Korean visit NATIONAL IDENTITY AND HISTORICAL LEGACY: AHN JUNG-GEUN IN To Hanyang! The Actor, the Age, the Cause | This is also the narrative one reads in the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall at Namsam Park (남산공원), in the heart of modern Seoul.This much older (but nowhere near the vintage of the shooting itself, note) memorial was privately established in 1970, before receiving an overhaul (and expansion) via private donations and state funds. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFUCIAN VALUES TO KIM JONG IL’S SYSTEM The Chuche Idea is a political thesis of Kim Il-sung which says that the Korean masses are the masters of the country’s development. According to ideologists, the Chuche is based on the idea that “man is the master and decides everything.”At the beginning (the term of Chuche was used for the first time by Kim Il Sung in December 1955), the Chuche Idea was formulated as principles that HIS “OTHER” LEGACY: KENNETH WALTZ’S DEFENSE OF NUCLEAR His “Other” Legacy: Kenneth Waltz’s Defense of Nuclear Proliferation. Kenneth Waltz, an IR giant, passed away last week. The professor was a mastermind mathematician and a genius logistician. A political scientist at both Berkeley and Columbia University and the founder of structural realism, he will be read by IR students for aslong as
ABOUT US | SINO-NK
About Us . Founded in December 2011 by a group of young academics committed to the study of Northeast Asia, Sino-NK focuses on the Sino-North Korean borderlands and the transnational links that bind China, the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea), and the Republic of Korea (or South Korea).STAFF | SINO-NK
Staff Adam Cathcart, PhD | Senior Editor. Adam Cathcart, PhD, is founder of Sino-NK and a lecturer at Leeds University in the UK. Dr. Cathcart’s research and publication program falls into three broad categories: China-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and East-West cultural relations. JANGMADANG | SINO-NK The Jangmadang is Sino-NK’s marketplace for fresh ideas. In keeping with the tradition established by its eponymous counterpart in North Korea, our Jangmadang, managed by Sino-NK staff, provides short, snappy, but vital information on the latest documentary research and news. Unlike most English-language outlets, you will find that amajority
ADAM CATHCART
The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea. By Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green | June 17, 2020. As the smoke clears from Kaesong and succession talk swirls around Kim Yo-jong, Sino-NK revisits one of the key foundations of North Korean history education.CHRISTOPHER GREEN
The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea . By Adam Cathcart and Christopher Green | June 17, 2020. As the smoke clears from Kaesong and succession talk swirls around Kim Yo-jong, Sino-NK revisits one of the key foundations of North Korean history education. THE MANCHURIAN MYTH: HISTORY AND POWER IN NORTH KOREA The Manchurian Myth: History and Power in North Korea. As Kim Yo-jong’s role becomes more prominent in the North Korean system, benefits can accrue from revisiting the foundations of the state itself, and the stories that North Koreans are taught. North Korea was brought into being by Soviet power and shaped by Soviet politicalstructures and
QUANTIFYING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THE NORTHEAST DURING Quantifying Civilian Casualties in the Northeast during the Chinese Civil War. Ah Yang, “At Ease” (Hong Kong, 1948). Via Adam Cathcart, “Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Cartoons, 1946-1951,” in Chinese Walls in Time and Space: History, Medicine, Media, Law, Art, and Literature, Haun Saussy and RogeDesForges
ROCK GOSPELS: ANALYZING THE ARTISTIC STYLE OF MORANBONG Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band. It seems that the Moranbong Band has ceased performing publicly, at least for the time being. This may be a proper moment to take a look at the short history of the ensemble, and try to understand its meaning in North Korea. Fourteen concerts have thus far been released on YouTube PURGES, BAEKDU, AND THE MORANBONG BAND: DATA POINTS AROUND Purges, Baekdu, and the Moranbong Band: Data Points around General Hyon. by Adam Cathcart. The headline from the intelligence assessment in Seoul was indeed shocking: North Korea’s nominal head of defense, Hyon Yong-chol, was reportedly executed in a gory fashion for, among other things, falling asleep in a meeting with Kim Jong-un. SOUTH KOREAN DEMOCRACY: CONSOLIDATED OR NOT? South Korea is slipping and sliding across a slick patch in the history of its 30-year experiment with democracy. Ever since Park Geun-hye came to power there has been talk of regression into authoritarianism, a claim which on the balance of the evidence seemsoverblown.
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A Reuters report on Chinese doctors treating North Korean leader Kim Jong-un spurs Adam Cathcart to deeper investigation of party-to-partymedical relations.
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By Sino-NK | April 06, 2020 Struggling to stay relevant at the Korean security crisis’s crowded negotiation table, the Russian Federation is undoubtedly among the least influential players in efforts to get the DPRK to disarm. Even within Russian foreign policy itself, the Korean Peninsula is not as important for Moscow as other sub-regions along the Russian periphery.This may seem
COVID-19 IN NORTH KOREA: A MIRROR INTO THE SOUL OF THE SOUTH By Robert Lauler | March19, 2020
An outbreak of COVID-19 in North Korea may, indeed, become the ending point of greater cooperation between the two Koreas for the time being, but the two Koreas were arguably never really that close in the first place. Robert Lauler explains. CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN NORTH KOREAN FOREIGN POLICY AT THE DAWN OFTHE MILLENNIUM
By Yujin Lim | March 10, 2020 Sino-NK’s Yujin Lim bridges the language barrier to provide insight into the view from Seoul over North Korean foreign policy at the turnof the millennium.
SIX HOURS TO MIDNIGHT: GSOMIA AND THE US INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY By Anthony Rinna | November25, 2019
South Korea’s narrowly-avoided decision to terminate GSOMIA underscores how the ROK’s defense priorities in Northeast Asia affect the US’s Indo-Pacific strategy as a whole. LIVE FROM KOREA, LIVE FROM ANYWHERE: A REVIEW OF “K-POP LIVE: FANS, IDOLS, AND MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE” By Wonseok Lee | November 18,2019
Musician and scholar Wonseok Lee, in his debut publication for Sino-NK, offers a review of Suk-young Kim’s “K-Pop Live: Fans, Idols and Media Performance”. UNDERSTANDING NORTH KOREA: FOREIGN RELATIONS OF NORTH KOREA IN 2000 By Yujin Lim | November 04,2019
In this translation from the original Korean, analyst Yujin Lim offers a glimpse of how Seoul perceived Pyongyang’s program of diplomatic outreach in the year 2000, offering observers a chance to peer into the origins of contemporary North Korean foreign policy. YONGUSIL 98: MOSCOW AND THE DILEMMA OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT VERSUS NORTH KOREA SANCTIONSBy Anthony Rinna |
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Russia’s North Korea policy involves a trade-off: refusal to support UN sanctions hurts Russia internationally, but supporting sanctions damages growth prospects in the country’s easternmost regions. Anthony Rinna covers this dilemma in Asian Studies InternationalReview.
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