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Martin Weiser, Unseen Laws: A Quantitative Approach to Developments in North Korea’s Legal System

Martin Weiser, ‘Unseen Laws: A Quantitative Approach to Developments in North Korea’s Legal System,’ European Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 2018), 22-62. Abstract: While little North Korean legislation is available to scholars outside the DPRK, the legislative numbering usually given with every legal text allows us to measure the activity of all major institutions of the legal system. This… Read more →

Robert Winstanley-Chesters, North Korean Pomiculture 1958–1967: Pragmatism and Revolution

Robert Winstanley-Chesters, ‘North Korean Pomiculture 1958–1967: Pragmatism and Revolution,’ Papers of the British Association for Korean Studies, Vol. 16 (2015): 117–128.  Full text available here: Winstanley-Chesters, BAKS Papers 16 Abstract: Building on the author’s past analysis of North Korea’s history of developmental approach and environmental engagement, this paper encounters the field of pomiculture (or orchard development and apple farming) in the light of another… Read more →