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North Korea has operated various aid projects in West Africa since the independence period of the early 1960s. In 1997, I visited a juche demonstration farm in a remote corner in Ghana which was supposed to be teaching the local peasants the juche technique for growing corn, the essence of which seemed to be to [...]
A potentially major driver in North Korean societal change has been the regime’s eroding control over information. South Korea recently upgraded from analog to digital television broadcasts meaning loss of access by residents of North Korea’s Gangwon province. An unnamed source from the province told Daily NK last Sunday, “Those people who used to watch South [...]
Professor Haggard is a serious political scientist, so it was with mild astonishment that he passed along a KCNA piece which implied that there were at least five Nigerian organizations–The Nigerian Group for the Study of Kimjongilism, National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, Group for the Study of the Songun Politics, Group [...]
We have finally gotten around to reading the leaked UN Panel of Experts report that has been getting so much attention recently. It provides a surprisingly useful and blunt introduction to how the North Koreans—with the complicity of unnamed “third parties”—has sought to circumvent the sanctions. But it goes farther by putting the country’s weapons programs [...]
