Chongryon’s Assimilation to Japan
Adapting to another culture which is outwardly hostile toward one’s home country is a complex and identity-conflicting task. Any and all...
Chaewon Lim, NKR Intern
Struggle for Power: A Theory on Post-Kim Jung-un North Korea
On May 3, Kim Jung-un made his first appearance in close to a month by attending a ceremony at the newly completed fertilizer factory in...
Benjamin Zimmer
The Management of North Korean Materials in South Korean Libraries
“Knowledge is power.” There are no truer words in academia. Yet what happens when knowledge is limited, not just to a select few, but...
S. Scholten, NKR Intern
Testimony and its Epistemological (Im)possibility
Picture Credit: Yonhap News, https://www.voakorea.com/a/2729885.html Resistance is a fact of history, and only in accepting this fact...
Luisa Kim, NKR Intern
North Korea’s Regime Security and Coup Proofing Politics
North Korea’s society is a personalist dictatorship regime, in which the leader has access to unlimited discretionary power. In such a...
Soyoung Kwon, YINKS Researcher
The No-Fly Zone and Its Effects on Surveillance
On September 19, 2018, North and South Korea adopted the ‘Agreement on the Implementation of the Historic Panmunjom Declaration in the...
Seung-chan Boo, YINKS Researcher
Explaining the boom of leisure activities in North Korea
According to the Korea Development Institute, a recent boom of leisure facilities occurred in North Korea, ranging from the construction...
Alice Jaewon Lee, NKR Intern
Applying Lessons from Afghanistan to North Korea: Infrastructure Reconstruction
Image: US Department of Defense From Singapore to Hanoi, the only thing we received from the historic Trump-Kim summits was ambiguity....
Nattanun Somchoe, NKR Intern
Changes in inter-Korean Relations – South Korea, let’s head North!
A South Korean train passes over a cross-border railway bridge near the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Paju, north of Seoul on August 21,...
Jae-deok Choi, YINKS Researcher
Trump and Kim Jong-un: Climbing the Diplomatic Ladder
At the first U.S.-North Korea summit in June 2018, President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un agreed to pursue “new U.S.-DPRK...
Leif-Eric Easley
