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We are family: Is Hwang Pyong So a Cholla chap?
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We are family: Is Hwang Pyong So a Cholla chap?

North Korea’s OGD supremo may have family roots in South Korea

We are family: Is Hwang Pyong So a Cholla chap?
Aidan Foster-Carter
Aidan Foster-Carter January 12, 2015
North Korea and Libya: friendship through artillery

North Korea and Libya: friendship through artillery

As war tears through Libya products of old bond with N. Korea continue to appear

North Korea and Libya: friendship through artillery
Joost Oliemans
Joost Oliemans | Stijn Mitzer January 5, 2015
The boundaries of identity on the NK-China border

The boundaries of identity on the NK-China border

Those benefitting most now would be most disenfranchised in the event of unification

The boundaries of identity on the NK-China border
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy December 26, 2014
Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone

Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone

Traditional mourning period handled differently by Kim Jong Un, but still meaningful for succession

Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone
John G. Grisafi
John G. Grisafi December 17, 2014
Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone
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Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone

Traditional mourning period handled differently by Kim Jong Un, but still meaningful for succession

Three-year anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death important milestone
John G. Grisafi
John G. Grisafi December 17, 2014
The diminishing role of Soviet help in Pyongyang propaganda

The diminishing role of Soviet help in Pyongyang propaganda

North Korea once celebrated help in establishing its independence; now it barely acknowledges it

The diminishing role of Soviet help in Pyongyang propaganda
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy December 15, 2014
The party’s 10 principles, then and now

The party’s 10 principles, then and now

Evolution of party credo shows effort to elevate Kim Jong Il, the Worker’s Party

The party’s 10 principles, then and now
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy December 11, 2014
The first party conference and purge of ’58

The first party conference and purge of ’58

How the original WPK conference bore witness to the end of Kim Il Sung’s enemies

The first party conference and purge of ’58
Being a minor party in the North

Being a minor party in the North

In a totalitarian regime, what do N. Korea’s other political blocs do?

Being a minor party in the North
Fyodor Tertitskiy
Fyodor Tertitskiy November 26, 2014
How the Sakhalin Koreans became Russian

How the Sakhalin Koreans became Russian

New generation of island's ethnic Korean residents feel little kinship to North or South

How the Sakhalin Koreans became Russian
Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov November 25, 2014
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