Author: Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov
Chosen Soren, a state for leftist Koreans in Japan
Recently I was interviewing a North Korean refugee, a woman in her 50s. In passing she mentioned that she saw her first US movie in 1987 or 1988 while living […]
South Koreans aren’t candid about their views on unification
As every visitor to Korea knows, there are two words which have exceptionally positive connotations in modern political Korean parlance. One is ‘nation’ (minjok), and the other is ‘unification’ (t’ongil). […]
East Asian community won’t be easy to come
Scholars of South Korea, Japan and China exchange talks under the theme of Building East Asian Community and its Prospects in the second East Asian Community Forum held at the International Studies Hall […]
NK’s move to control Sakhalin Koreans foiled
The former Soviet Union was home to the world’s fourth largest overseas Korean community. At the time of the break of the Soviet Union in 1991, some 450,000 of its […]
Authenticity of alleged Kim Jong-un’s reform-mindedness
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a mass military parade in Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of […]
NK will launch ‘satellite’ despite sanction threat
In this March 20, 2012 file satellite image taken and provided by GeoEye, a satellite launch pad in Tongchang-ri, Cholsan County, North Pyongan Province, North Korea, is shown. <File photo: […]
NK nuclear issue: No early solution
It seems that, after few months of hibernation, something is happening again in regard to the North Korean nuclear issue. The officials from the United States and North Korea met […]
Mediabias On North Korea
North Korea does not get much good press in the global media. Its image is that of a bizarre, irrational and dangerously unpredictable place which is run by control freaks […]
N. Korea Kim Jong-un and Boris Yeltsin
North Korea has suddenly got a new leader. Predictably enough, people want to make sense of this sudden change and many Pyongyangologists (admittedly, not a large group) look into their […]
Four Survival Rules for a Young Dictator
So, Marshal Kim Jong Il, the lodestar of the 21st century, is dead, and his impoverished country is going to be run by his son Kim Jong Un, who might […]