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Category: North Korea

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Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal/Hwasal

Posted on November 13, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

Film/Korea/North Korea

Red Chapel Ironies

Posted on February 25, 2013 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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...

Academia/Korea/North Korea

The North Flank Guard: Everyday Life in North Korea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

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...

Academia/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/US-Korea

The North Flank Guard: A Military Exercise Escalated into Artillery Exchange

Posted on December 10, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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 ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/US-Korea/Web Sites

The North Flank Guard

Posted on December 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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 ...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/Politics

A Question of Credibility: The ASCK

Posted on May 25, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 20 Comments

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 ...

1945-1950/Art/General/Korea/Korean War/Memory/North Korea

Korean War in art

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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.

Colonial/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/North Korea

Dokdo is Korean for “Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Apparently inspired by the success of other international publicity campaigns around disputed lands — Tibetan independence, Pakistani claims to Kashmir, t...

1960s/1970s/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korea’s engagement with the world

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

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...

1945-1950/Korea/Law/North Korea

National Archives: Captured North Korean Documents

Posted on April 5, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 12 Comments

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 ...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books and Articles/Colonial/Historiography/Koguryo/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea/World

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Historiography/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea

5,000 years

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

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...

Historiography/Korea/Korean War/North Korea/Politics/Postwar

Revisionism (History news round up I)

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

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...

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