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Revolutionized Woman: A Primer on the Historical Rhetoric of Women in the NK...
Kang Young-hee, editor of the magazine Korean Woman (Chosōn Yōsōng) Democratic Women’s Union, 1946. The magazine was founded in September 1946, a process described at length in Kim Jong Suk’s official...
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Ko Young-hee: Joseon’s Nameless, Newly Canonized Mother
Ko Young-hee, a good case for Nam-Nam-Buk-Nyeo (남남분녀)? | Image via NK Vision A sister, lover, or just good friend? As the speculation fury over Kim Jong-un’s plus-one at the recent Moranbong Band...
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Modern, Feminine and Bright: Kim Jong-un’s First Lady
Pictures Worth a Thousand Words | Rodong Sinmun, via Destination Pyongyang Modern, Feminine and Bright: Kim Jong-un’s First Lady by Darcie Draudt In any juicy celebrity marriage worth its salt, the...
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Beautiful Defectors: An Exploration of South Korea’s “Now on My Way to Meet You”
Since the late 1990s, the number of defectors residing in South Korea has risen significantly. As noted in this SinoNK.com recap of ongoing work by Dr. Sandra Fahy and Joanna Hosaniak, the lives of...
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Beautiful Defectors, Part II. Everyday Fashion as Political: Blending into...
In their first installation of “Beautiful Defectors: An Exploration of South Korea’s ‘Now on My Way to Meet You,’” SinoNK Analysts Brian Gleason and Darcie Draudt introduced readers to the South Korean...
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Ko Young-hee and Ri Sol-ju: Media (Re)constructions of Kim Jong-un’s Ideal Women
Ri Sol-ju at Target Range with Kim Jong-un | Image via Rodong Sinmun, November 8 The following is a special pre-print publication of Darcie Draudt’s work on Ko Young-hee and Ri Sol-ju to be published...
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Ri Sol-ju, Conspicuous Wealth, and the “Military Wife” Type in the DPRK
Pointing the Economically Useless Man to the Future – Image via China Radio International One Korean phrase (사자성어) used to describe the ideal wife from both a male and female perspective is...
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A Quarter Century of Change: Yonsei Journal of International Studies, Vol. 4,...
Published twice a year and managed by graduate students, the Yonsei Journal of International Studies (YJIS) is a peer-reviewed journal of international studies at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of...
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When the Bomb Goes Boom: Gauging China’s Policy Responses
North Korea at the center – but China’s reaction is key. Photo via Xinhua When the Bomb Goes Boom: Gauging China’s Response In the interest of reviewing past translations and providing context for...
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Ri Sol-ju Goes Viral: What Social Media Reveal about the DPRK’s First Lady
As the recent trip by Kim Jong-un’s new “friend for life” Dennis Rodman affirms, Ri Sol-ju, the DPRK’s fashionable purse-carrying First Lady, not only acts as the Respected Leader’s better half and...
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Jackson Five Ri-dux: More Sol-ju in the South Korean Media
Kim Yoo-kyung, mistakenly identified as Ri Sol-ju’s sister, performing at the Moranbong 2013 New Year’s Performance. | image via Chosun Central TV On March 8, Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Korean-language...
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Southern Teletubbies vs. Northern War Songs: Korean Media Dualities
Characters of the SNL Korea’s “Global Teletubbies” | Image via Chungang Daily Depicting politics on either side of the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) rapidly becomes an exercise in cognitive...
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[SinoNK Exclusive] North Korea Through the Lankov Prism: Welcome to “The Real...
Kim Il-sung giving guidance to party members in 1961 | scan courtesy of Queen’s University, Belfast Dr. Andrei Lankov, a visiting professor of history at Kookmin University in Seoul, is one of the top...
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Packaged and Controlled by the Masculine State: Moranbong Band and Gender in...
After an absence of nearly four months, the Moranbong Band recently returned to the national stage, doing so in a way that assured North Korean conservatives that the girls could have a salutary effect...
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Oxford-Seoul Nexus: Sino-NK at Engage Korea and Asan Plenum
Sino-NK at Oxford: from left, Sabine van Ameijden, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Matthew Bates, Dr. Adam Cathcart, Dr. James Lewis, Dr. Robert Wistanley-Chesters, and Christopher Green. Photo Credit:...
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