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In: Bob de Graaff (ed.): Intelligence Communities and Cultures in Asia and the Middle East: A Comprehensive Reference. My chapter is about DPRK Intelligence Agencies: History, Development, Organisation, Operations. The book in... more
A details story about how North Korean mass gymnastic works and propaganda that makes it work
Le décès de Kim Jong-il : le début d’une nouvelle ère en Corée du Nord ? Depuis la mort de Kim Jong-il et l’avènement de son fils Kim Jong-un, la Corée du Nord est entrée dans une nouvelle phase de son histoire. Les réformes économiques... more
2021 MCU Tourism International Conference: Sailing Against the Wind - The Future Development and Challenges of the Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Industry
2 Résumé L’article suivant à pour but de présenter la question de la sécurité interne en Corée du Nord. D’une part seront présentés les principales structures de sécurité en Corée du Nord. D’autre part nous verrons quels sont... more
Today, in parallel with the more familiar names of Andrei Lankov, James Hoare, B.R. Myers, Victor Cha, Charles Armstrong and David Kang, we can count on the work of numerous authors, not necessarily “new” in terms of publications, but... more
NORTH KOREA BEHIND THE VEIL is a collection of an insider’s short stories, articles and uncensored images, providing a unique insight and a different perspective on the world's most isolated, under-reported and misrepresented country. It... more
Since the middle of the 20th, there have been two places of division caused by war in east Asia. One is in the Korean peninsula, the other is related to the Taiwan Strait. After the war and the long-term military confrontation, the two... more
Against all the odds, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) has survived two decades of acute crisis since the end of the Cold War. It has neither collapsed nor reformed itself, despite the dire state of its... more
Give me 500 Kw completed report with technical all equipments list.
Part 1 of this article on North Korean women introduced the female iconography of the DPRK. In this second part, I explore the various roles of North Korean women and the realities of their daily lives. The DPRK takes pride in claiming to... more
- by Gianluca Spezza
- Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Steady-State Economy, Degrowth, Ecological Economics, Evolution of Economics, Sustainable Lifestyles, Behavioral Change, Human Development, Evolution of Consciousness, Intentional Communities, Grassroots Movements, North Korea (politics and society)
NORTH KOREA BEHIND THE VEIL is a collection of an insider’s short stories, articles and uncensored images, providing a unique insight and a different perspective on the world's most isolated, under-reported and misrepresented country. It... more
The two studies brought together in this volume not only look like they are miles apart, in fact they are. The first study investigates the construction of the M4 motorway in Pakistan, while the second study deals with the presence of... more
For many of us, the idea of people living happily in North Korea doesn’t seem possible. Even less likely is the idea of North Koreans having an emotional connection to the country’s leader. But things look different on the other side. In... more
In this presentation I first underlined the need to distinguish between the illicit cross-border trade that the North Korean regime has been applying for almost forty years, serving also Chinese organized crime groups and the illicit... more
North Korea Webinar by Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on 25th June 2022. Presentation by Felix Abt on 1. Sanctions, impact and lifting them 2. The role of South Korean, Chinese and other foreign companies in the North 3. A... more
The framework known as “Responsibility to Protect” (“R2P”) has afforded legal endorsement and codification to the doctrine that States hold responsibility under public international law for the protection of their own citizens and of... more
This is the report we wrote for the Global Slavery Index 2018 on the prevalence of modern slavery in contemporary North Korea.
The conflict between the two Koreas is deeply rooted in the results of the WWII, namely, 1945, when postcolonial Korea was divided into North (Soviet occupation zone) and South (U.S. occupation zone). As an aftermath of global bipolar... more
North Korean restaurants operating outside the DPRK is an interesting example to explore the meaning of national cuisine as an instrument of the state official politics of national cultural identification. While the DPRK is still quite... more
In 2006, Diane Sawyer became the first American journalist to broadcast live from inside North Korea. Her trip ended with an hour-long special programme scrutinising life in what she considers possibly ‘the most dangerous flashpoint on... more
Research Journal : Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologi
Issue: nr 48/2015
Pages: 207-226
Issue: nr 48/2015
Pages: 207-226
I have just finished watching BBC Panorama’s “Undercover in North Korea”, perhaps the best example of what documentaries on North Korea should not be like. Let me be perfectly clear: these are thirty minutes of biased, factually... more
A 12-page essay which looks at North Korea's official ideology, its communist influences, and the "god-like" qualities circulating around the Kim family. A bibliography is included on pages 13 & 14.
Following in the footsteps of Korean people in Uzbekistan and beyond.
https://koryogroup.com/blog/koryo-saram-in-central-asia
https://koryogroup.com/blog/koryo-saram-in-central-asia
We have seen that even though a number of problems persist, North Korea has slowly modified its stance towards foreign aid and humanitarian cooperation. The DPRK seems to have accepted the notion that foreign intervention in the country... more
Analysis of North Korea's media in the post-UN COI era
In: Jan Melissen & Koen de Ceuster (eds.), ‘Ending the North Korean nuclear crisis. Six parties, six perspectives’, Clingendael Diplomacy Paper No. 18, 2008, pp. 83-88.
The given article is dedicated to scrutinising North Korean missile and nuclear programmes from the standpoint of securitisation theory advocated by B. Buzan and O. Wæver. The author utilises various ideas within the securitisation theory... more
In this article, I proposed an approach that assumes the presence of Confucianism 1 (유교) and Neo-Confucianism (성리학) in the North Korean ideology especially during the Kim Jong Il’s (김정일) era 2 . I would like to prove that North Korea... more
This article is part of the new NK News feature dedicated to shining a light on innovative and lesser known authors presenting four names which have published a number of valuable North Korea-focused studies in recent years. From the... more
Considering the life sentence given to South Korean missionary Kim Jeong-wook, what motivates an increasing number of people to risk delivering a message of spirituality to North Korea? In recent times, the cases of Robert Park, Kenneth... more
Cosa sappiamo della Corea del Nord? A volte il solo fatto di porre questo tipo di domanda (per la quale spesso si sfoderano risposte pronte: “è un posto terribile”, ed immediate contro-domande: “perché, cos’altro dovremmo sapere?”)... more
Ryang argues instead that “Kim Jong Il, the ryodongja (the Leader) can be replaced, but Kim Il Sung, the suryong (the Great Leader) is irreplaceable”. In other words, Kim Jong Il never took the place of his father, as that place was never... more
The 13th Annual Conference on Development Studies
University Outreach to Social and Regional Development in the Post-Pandemic Era
University Outreach to Social and Regional Development in the Post-Pandemic Era
The relation of Kim Jong-il to the cinema industry
North Korea is considered as a secretive state. Paradoxically, the country is developing last trend technologies.The scope of this work is related to the development of cryptocurrencies in the context of the DPRK. The report... more