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In a post last month analyzing Kim Jong-un’s speech on land management, I quoted an earlier speech by Kim Jong-il in which he extolled the flattening the fields of Phyongan Province “into regular shapes like a checkerboard and in a sweeping manner” that would sever the connection between cultivators and traditional patterns of land tenure. [...]
Twelve years ago Kim Jong-il delivered a truly extraordinary speech, “Improving the Layout of the Field is a Transformation of Nature for the Prosperity of the Country, a Pacific Work of Lasting Significance.” Subtitled, “Talk to Officials during Field Guidance to the Development of the layout of Field in North Phyongan Province” (sic), it praises [...]
The recent controversies over Executive Order 13570 have refocused attention on the web of regulations that constrain economic exchange between the United States and North Korea. Beyond the issues associated with direct bilateral trade, US economic diplomacy toward North Korea is conditioned on a variety of laws which use restrictions on economic relations as an [...]
Two North Korean ships have been caught fishing illegally in internationally protected waters off the coast of Antarctica. Both had been previously blacklisted due to prior infractions. To add insult to injury, one of the ships was using an illegal deep-sea gillnet. In its statement, the government of New Zealand indicated that it planned to [...]
