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South Korea-North Korea Relations: Plumbing the Depths, by Aidan Foster-Carter
Covering inter-Korean relations for Comparative Connections throughout the past decade hasbeen a roller-coaster ride, given the peninsula’s changeable political weather. Even so, thecurrent state of affairs is unprecedented. Pyongyang has always been a master of threats andinsults, but it has spent the whole of 2012 hurling ever ruder and angrier …
[Editorial] Detention in China
China’s detention of four South Korean activists, which has continued for 50 days with no details being released, testifies again to its opaque legal system, which is far
A Loop contest: Where to put anti-missile missiles?
Seems a bit speedy, but there’s a quick $100 million in the bill for surveys and planning and such.Sure, the Iranians and North Koreans don’t have long-range missiles
Candidate for South Korean Parliament Accused of Being A North Korean Spy
Via a reader tip comes this news that an active North Korean spy may become a member of the South Korean parliament: Kim Hyeon-jang, a once pro-North Korea
Effect on Relations Impossible to Predict
At this point, it is hard to guess by what process and upon what rationale North Korea activist and researcher Kim Young Hwan was arrested by the
Questions linger on why China arrested them
Questions linger on why China arrested them The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that four South Korean human rights activists, including Kim Young-hwan, a
Sources: Victor Cha’s The Impossible State, by Stephan Haggard
North Korea generates a lot of books, but a surprising number of them are highly specialized: the nuclear issue; the Kim family; leadership politics; refugees; the famine;
Information and North Korea, By Scott A. Snyder
EBG6NYSM4VCJ The conventional wisdom is that there could be nothing more dangerous to North Korea’s current leadership than the penetration of information into the country from the
The Darkness of Heart, by Prof. Ra Jong Yil
On May 14th, 2012, Professor Ra Jong Yil of Hanyang University, a Roh Moo Hyun-era ambassador in both Tokyo and London, as well as a former head of
Detention of activists
Questions linger on why China arrested them The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that four South Korean human rights activists, including Kim Young-hwan, a






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