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Back in September, I commented on the resumption of Russia-North Korea joint naval maneuvers. Not be to be left out, according to the Tokyo Shimbun, China has indicated that it will extend its policy of interdicting North Korean refugees from the land to the sea the Chinese and North Korean navies would also begin joint naval [...]
Since February we have been following North Korean-related aspects of the Libya saga.Unfortunately, the recent death of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi will not bring this sorry tale to a close. So far, North Korean media has not made any direct comments about Gaddafi’s death, perhaps because of uncertainty about how to “interpret” events in the Middle East [...]
No huge surprises—nor any clear legislative purpose–but a group of thoughtful Korea watchers provided an overview of recent issues earlier this week, ranging from the KORUS to the North Korean nuclear issues (podcast here). All waxed eloquent on the alliance, but with some predictable differences in emphasis. Chris Hill, former lead 6PT negotiator, comes down [...]
In May this year, four members of the Daily NK staff went to the Sino-North Korean border to interview refugees about circumstances in the country: factory workers, traders, even Workers’ Party members. Chris Green and his team on the English-language side of DailyNK have now translated ten of these interviews into a book. And they [...]
In case you missed it—and we would be worried if you didn’t—there was an interesting exchange between State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland and a reporter over food aid to the DPRK and Somalia. We have pointed out that pressures from the Horn of Africa will inevitably affect responsiveness to the WFP’s Korean appeal. But this [...]
Recently, the Washington Post reported on how the younger South Korean generation is increasingly being disaffected by the idea of national unification, and how the Ministry of Unification (MOU) has been trying to fight against this trend. This led us to poke into what the MOU is doing, and we found that they are not [...]
In the last post, we focused on the legal issues of the SOFA debate. In this post, we delve into the data side. The underlying issue in the SOFA debate is whether justice is served by the arrangement. Koreans may feel aggrieved by the very fact that their courts are unable—or unwilling—to assert jurisdiction, and [...]
The recent rape cases in Korea had us refreshing our memories on Status of Forces Agreements in general, and the US-Korean one in particular. In this two-part post, we review some of the major issues, drawing on some of the legal literature and conversations with several former military personnel (for the record, Haggard was stationed [...]
Thanks for our buddy in Seoul, Dan Pinkston, for this pathbreaking discovery. No further commentary needed.
A couple of weeks ago I blogged on a recent paper by Jeon Woo-taek, Jung Seung-ho, Kim Byung-yeon, and Yu Shi-eun on the labor market experiences of female North Korean refugees in South Korea. Steph Haggard and I also have a paper coming out on North Korean women, though our paper focuses on their experiences [...]
