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• Delegation of Chinese National People’s Congress Feted (Korean Central News Agency)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 161
  Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) — The Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK arranged a reception in honor of the visiting delegation of the Chinese National People’s Congress at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on November 30. Continued here: Delegation of Chinese National People’s Congress Feted (Korean Central News ...
  5 days ago

• US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  Please find below the abstract and bio for the talk at SOAS on Friday. Friday, November 27th, 5pm, room G50 (main building) Prof. Wookhee Shin, Seoul National University / SOAS US-North Korean Relations and the Peace System in the Korean Peninsula: A Historical Inquiry Abstract This seminar will deal with six ...
  1 week ago

• Predicting Change in North Korea: the Post Kim Jong-il Era

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the following lecture in its series of East Asian seminars. This seminar will take place on Wednesday, November 25th in Room 7 of the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (formerly Oriental Studies), Sidgwick Avenue, ...
  1 week ago

• GA condemns Burma, DPRK, Iran

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 120
  On Thursday, November 19, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution that “strongly condemns the ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar,” with 92 countries voting in favor, 26 voting against, and 65 abstaining.  Sweden, ...
  2 weeks ago

• GA condemns Burma, DPRK, Iran

  
  View from Geneva — Authority: 120
  On Thursday, November 19, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution that “strongly condemns the ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Myanmar,” with 92 countries voting in favor, 26 voting against, and 65 abstaining.  Sweden, ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Land, This Earth, These Words Unspoken

  
  Shisaku — Authority: 500
  "Hatoyama-san. I am sorry. I come without a fixed plan to reduce Americas carbon emissions, thus abdicating my countrys natural role as the leader in the fight against anthropogenic climate change, the greatest threat facing us all. I have no plan to free our countries from petroleum dependency, thus guaranteeing that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bamboo and Blood: Inspector O is back on form

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  James Church: Bamboo and Blood St Martin’s Press, 2008 After Inspector O’s slightly disappointing second outing , James Church is back on form with the third novel in the series, Bamboo and Blood . In another fast-paced story, set against the backdrop of the North Korean 1997 famine and the US-DPRK talks ...
  3 weeks ago

• Better Exchange This Time

  
  DPRK Studies — Authority: 100
  The last time the North and South Korean navies clashed seriously in 2002, the latter came off badly . The ROK Navy seems to have been better prepared this time : According to South Korean officials, fighting erupted when a 215-ton North Korean vessel ventured across the so-called Northern Limit Line, a sea ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kim Jong-il: No more TV commercials in North Korea

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 669
  Filed under: Media World , Headline news North Koreans dont need DVR technology any more. The most important purpose of these devices -- to fast forward through commercials -- no longer applies, now that the reclusive Communist state has banned television commercials from the airwaves . According to the Yonhap ...
  3 weeks ago

• Book review: The Reluctant Communist

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  Charles Robert Jenkins: The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea University of California Press, 2008 “Our choices are what makes us who we are. Nobody knows that better than me.” So ends the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the only ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Axis of Vaudeville: Images of North Korea in South Korean Pop Culture

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  Elizabeth Grace reports on Dr Stephen Epstein’s talk at Cambridge earlier this week We are all too familiar with the Western media’s portrayal of North Korea as a rogue communist state, complete with an evil dictator whose regime is seen as an unrepentant member of the “axis of evil.” Although these ...
  4 weeks ago

• From Gulag to Getaway: North Korean refugees tell their story in Parliament

  
  London Korean Links — Authority: 135
  “In South Korea, we are taught English, Maths, things like that. We are taught nothing about North Korea.” I was talking to a young South Korean after a meeting of the North Korean All-Party Parliamentary Group. She was visibly shocked at what she had just heard. Two North Korean refugees – Jung Guang-il and Lee ...
  4 weeks ago

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