Eungseo Kim, ‘The Sino-DPRK Split and Origins of US-DPRK Bilateralism,’ European Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 2018), 72-80. Abstract: North Korea has identified its official foreign policy as being focused on ‘self-reliance’ since the mid-1906s. Kim Il Sung (Kim Il-sŏng) had been long preoccupied with external interference in internal affairs, so the escalation of the Sino-Soviet schism created… Read more →
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Vladimir Tikhonov, Kim Saryang’s Ten Thousand Li of a Dull-Witted Horse: Remembering the Anti-Colonial Struggle
Vladimir Tikhonov, ‘Kim Saryang’s Ten Thousand Li of a Dull-Witted Horse: Remembering the Anti-Colonial Struggle,’ European Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter 2017), 1-21. Abstract: Kim Saryang (real name: Kim Sich’ang, 1914-1950) was among the Korean authors of the 1930s and 1940s who wrote abundantly on the issues related to the Korean ethno-national identity, both in Korean and in Japanese. When dispatched… 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 →