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Radio Times guest host, Tracey Matisak, interviews Marcus Noland about what life is like in North Korea. While life in Pyongyang may be relatively more transparent to the outside world, very little is known about life for the rest of the population. Noland draws on survey data used as the basis for the book, Witness to Transformation: [...]
One reason we were motivated to write Witness to Transformation is to add in our small way to the collective memory. But nothing is more compelling than letting the refugees speak for themselves. In the attached TED talk, Hyeonseo Lee tells her story in a simple, direct and moving way: the indoctrination as a child, [...]
The Chosun Ilbo recently published a troubling story about the thousands of children of North Korean refugee women currently living without their mothers in China. The story was inspired by a report from the Korean National Human Rights Commission that involved a survey of 100 children living in china with North Korean mothers. The most [...]
The current edition of KoreAm has a feature on DailyNK reporter Lee Sang-yong’s incarceration in China. It reminded us that we had not covered the strange case when it happened last year. But we should have, as it speaks volumes on Chinese sensitivities on human rights issues generally and on North Korea in particular. Although [...]
Recently the website Buzzfeed published an article highlighting some of the more obscure dating sites available online. It appears there is an online dating site for just about every interest. SeaCaptainDate, as the name suggests, matches lonely sea captains with potential first mates. WomenBehindBars provides women currently in prison with a venue to attract potential pen [...]
In a previous post I reviewed some recent research coming out of KDI on the distribution of income in North Korea. A team from KINU has put out a new study based on 41 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees on quality of life issues that can be read as a kind of companion piece. [...]
A couple of months ago, the KDI School of Public Policy and Management put out a paper by Kim Taejong and Kim Ji-Hong which uses a 2005 KDI survey of 700 North Korean refugees to generate estimates of the distribution of income in North Korea, focusing on the period 1996-2003. Kim and Kim are well-aware [...]
On Inauguration Day—and with the Russians being obstreperous on the issue–it is appropriate to focus on new legislation aimed at protecting stateless North Korean children. On January 14, President Obama signed H.R. 1464 (reproduced in full below), the North Korean Child Welfare Act of 2012. With backing from Korean-American NGOs, the legislation was first sponsored [...]
London calling: News reports that the BBC was contemplating initiating a broadcast service aimed at North Korea got me thinking about a Clash-themed slave to the blog post. Obviously the more outside information that reaches North Korea the better, and given the US fiscal situation, it would be surprising if RFA got a big boost. [...]
To most people who visit the Peterson Institute website, the word “depression” probably conjures up mental images of the unemployed standing in bread lines. I think that is how A.P. Carter meant it; I am less certain about Uncle Tupelo’s Gen X fans or the guys who started the music magazine. As Yoonok Chang, Steph Haggard, [...]
