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Benjamin R. Young

Benjamin R. Young

Benjamin R. Young, Ph.D. has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Dakota State University and the U.S. Naval War College. He was a 2024-25 Stanton Foundation Nuclear Security Fellow at the RAND Corporation. He is now an Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies at Fayetteville State University. He is the author of the book "Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World" (Stanford University Press, 2021).

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Kim Jong Il’s unlikely Maltese mentor & a secret military agreement

Kim Jong Il spent a year learning English in former British colony Malta

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungJune 11, 2014
Analysis

Why is North Korea called the DPRK?

Name dates back to series of 'people's republics' dubbed by the Soviet Union

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungFebruary 7, 2014
Analysis

New ski resort echoes North Korea’s ’88 Olympics bid

IOC rules forbid co-hosting, making Pyongyang’s co-hosting dreams unlikely to work

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungFebruary 4, 2014
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Author: U.S. dealt with hawkish S. Koreans in Pueblo affair

New book shows how Johnson administration managed spy ship crew’s abduction in tense Cold War-environment

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungJanuary 17, 2014
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Christmas and New Year’s in North Korea

While Christmas officially ignored, New Years marks big date in North Korea

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungDecember 31, 2013
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North Korea: Opponents of Apartheid

DPRK, South Africa remain friendly despite latter's push for denuclearization

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungDecember 16, 2013
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Meet the man who saved Kim Il Sung’s life

Meet Yakov Novichenko, the only foreigner with a personality cult in North Korea

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungDecember 12, 2013
Analysis

The German Neo-Nazi fascination with North Korea

Lesser-known Strasserite Nazi faction key to understanding admiration for Pyongyang

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungDecember 3, 2013
Analysis

Zimbabwe and North Korea: Uranium, elephants, and a massacre

Admiration for Kim Il Sung led to Gukurahundi atrocity and deep-seated hate for North Korea

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungOctober 30, 2013
Analysis

North Korea’s uncomfortable race relations

Willing to exploit racial conflict, the North does not welcome other oppressed peoples

Benjamin R. YoungBenjamin R. YoungOctober 11, 2013
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