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Yongusil 6: Navigating the JPRS/DTIC/FBIS Archive
Welcome to External| Following on from coverage of events and presentations by Sino-NK affiliates and access to collated elements of past output, the third key string to the Yongusil bow is the...
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Yongusil 7: Woodrow Wilson Center Archive
As suggested in the first Yongusil post of this series, it is not that historical data or published information on North Korea derived from deep research or possessed of an empirical focus is scant or...
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Yongusil 8: NK-News.net and the “STatistical Analyzer of Language IN north...
KCNA and Key Word Searching | Accessing searchable archives of North Korean media output and material is the bane of many a scholar’s research life. Both KCNA (in its Japanese and native formats) and...
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Yongusil 11: “War of Words” at Leiden University: Korea in the Chinese Imaginary
Owen Lattimore and Chiang Kai-Shek, Chungking 1941 | Image : David Lattimore Professor Remco Breuker’s recent announcement of a new European Research Council funded project at Leiden University’s...
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Yongusil 12: “War of Words” at Leiden University: Lines of Flight in North...
“Brigands” on an arduous march? | Image : Bulgarelli 1973 (Pyongyang, Foreign Languages Publishing House) Yongusil 12: ”War of Words” at Leiden University: Lines of flight in North Korean...
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Yongusil 14: “War of Words” at Leiden University: Manchuria and...
Chung-hee/Takagi Masao as a lieutenant in the Kwantung Army in Manchuria | Image: Wikimedia Commons In the final of our triology of “ponderances” and considerations on Professor Remco Breuker and the...
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Yongusil 27: “Polities in Motion” Conference at the University of Toronto
The Munk Centre for International Studies, where the conference will take place. | Image: SimonP/Wikicommons, Creative Commons 3.0 As evinced by its famous East Asian Studies Department and a...
View ArticleYongusil 29: In Pyongyang with Erik Cornell
Following Dennis Rodman’s latest visit to Pyongyang in December 2013, the tense and taut debates surrounding what is conventionally known as “engagement” between the external world and North Korea has...
View ArticleYongusil 33: The Sun, the Arrow, and Benjamin Joinau
As academics and analysts, we read a large track of material and attend a large number of workshops, conferences, and other such intellectual gatherings. At the Sixth World Congress of Korean Studies...
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Yongusil 50: A Cause for Optimism–Michael Kirby in Hong Kong
Screen grab of Justice Kirby speaking at a panel discussion on “The Human Rights Situation in North Korea.” | Image: UN Web TV After an initial flurry of media attention on its release in February this...
View ArticleYongusil 66: Suzy Kim, Cross-Currents and the (De)Memorialization of the...
Readers of Sino-NK will recall our roundtable consideration of Suzy Kim’s substantial 2013 text Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950. Dr. Kim’s noble effort to reconstruct the...
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Yongusil 80: The Developmental State and Politics of Industrial Complex...
A photo from Professor Park’s presentation. | Image: Asian Institute, University of Toronto What explains the developmental success of industrial “late comers” in East Asia? According to the...
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Yongusil 84: Christina Kim on Reworking the Frame in Dandong
Dandong (R); place of “last hope and the future” just across the Yalu River from that elusive target, the DPRK and its main border city, Sinuiju (L). | Image: Destination Pyongyang/Sino-NK Dandong is a...
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Yongusil 89: One River, Three States in Asian Perspective Special Issue
The PRC customs house at Tumen, deep in the Tumen Triangle and squarely in the analytical gaze of this special issue of Asian Perspective. | Image: Sino-NK 2016 has been an unusual year, one in which...
View ArticleYongusil 92: A New Perspective on the Evolution of South Korea’s...
Given their similar postwar starting points, why did South Korea blow through Rostow’s “conditions for take-off” and reach great industrial and economic heights in the 20th century while the...
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Yongusil 93: Socialism’s Influence on Syngman Rhee and the Founding of the...
A new working paper for the Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project explores and influence and meaning of socialism on Syngman Rhee and the founding of the Republic of Korea. South...
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Yongusil 27: “Polities in Motion” Conference at the University of Toronto
The Munk Centre for International Studies, where the conference will take place. | Image: SimonP/Wikicommons, Creative Commons 3.0 As evinced by its famous East Asian Studies Department and a...
View ArticleYongusil 29: In Pyongyang with Erik Cornell
Following Dennis Rodman’s latest visit to Pyongyang in December 2013, the tense and taut debates surrounding what is conventionally known as “engagement” between the external world and North Korea has...
View ArticleYongusil 33: The Sun, the Arrow, and Benjamin Joinau
As academics and analysts, we read a large track of material and attend a large number of workshops, conferences, and other such intellectual gatherings. At the Sixth World Congress of Korean Studies...
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Yongusil 50: A Cause for Optimism–Michael Kirby in Hong Kong
Screen grab of Justice Kirby speaking at a panel discussion on “The Human Rights Situation in North Korea.” | Image: UN Web TV After an initial flurry of media attention on its release in February this...
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