Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal/Hwasal
I’ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sour...
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“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”
Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...
Red Chapel Ironies
I recently got around to watching the Red Chapel, the unusual guerrilla documentary by the Danish journalist Mads Brügger.1 The basic premise is a visit to Nort...
The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea
This is the last of three postings in this series. Read the first posting here for an explanation of the idea of the “North flank guard” and the sec...
The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange
This is the second of a three part series. Read the first posting here. On November 28, a South Korean artilleryman mistakenly fired a single 155mm shell north ...
The North Flank Guard
In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a ...
A Question of Credibility: The ASCK
Of late I have become depressed by what I see as a lack of credibility in some of the efforts to counter the flood of media reports and bombastic condemnations ...
Korean War in art
Japan Focus has an article detailing and displaying Gobau’s Korean War art which has a plethora of arresting images. Gobau worked from the Republic of Kor...
North Korean Propoganda Posters
Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.
Dokdo is Korean for “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Apparently inspired by the success of other international publicity campaigns around disputed lands — Tibetan independence, Pakistani claims to Kashmir, t...
North Korea’s engagement with the world
I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...
National Archives: Captured North Korean Documents
I returned last week from the second of what will be four trips to the National Archives before I leave for Korea in June. On my first trip I had only two days ...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
5,000 years
One of those phrases that anyone dealing with Korean history must learn to live with is the ‘5,000 years’ business. Today I came across one of the m...
Revisionism (History news round up I)
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...