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Author Archives: Bradley K. Martin

Posted inEssay

Kim birthday brings joy to nobody in North Korea

by Bradley K. Martin April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

Here’s Kim Il Sung quoted in my book Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, as he recalls in his memoirs his days as a 14-year-old boarding student at a Manchuria school founded by nationalists in the Korean independence movement: Kim noted disapprovingly: “Some young students at the school still believed in dynastic rule.” […]

Posted inJapan

Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice hits the big time: HBO

by Bradley K. Martin April 10, 2022April 10, 2022
Posted inNorth Korea

If Putin has his way, Kim Jong Un may be next

by Bradley K. Martin March 7, 2022March 7, 2022
Posted inReligion

Truth-fiction strangeness contest: Russia as Magog

by Bradley K. Martin March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
Posted inRussia

Could a credit default swaps scam be Putin’s game?

by Bradley K. Martin February 16, 2022February 21, 2022
Posted inNorth Korea

What to do about North Korea

by Bradley K. Martin November 30, 2021December 2, 2021
A North Korean soldier sits on a bank of the Yalu River just north of Sinuiju, North Korea, on April 2, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Damir Sagolj
Posted inNorth Korea

N Korea rattles from walking skeletons, not sabers

by Bradley K. Martin October 22, 2021October 23, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Helluva time to sell a US-North-South Korea alliance

by Bradley K. Martin August 17, 2021August 20, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Why Kim may be re-emphasizing guerrilla warfare

by Bradley K. Martin August 5, 2021August 8, 2021
Posted inTokyo Olympics

An ode to Tokyo, a two-times Olympian host

by Bradley K. Martin August 3, 2021August 7, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

General executed for criticizing Kim’s grain order: report

by Bradley K. Martin August 2, 2021August 5, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Hungry North Korean soldiers ‘terrorize civilians’

by Bradley K. Martin July 28, 2021July 31, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

No secret: Kim is giving away military’s rice store

by Bradley K. Martin July 19, 2021July 23, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

The summer of North Koreans’ discontent

by Bradley K. Martin July 16, 2021July 20, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Kim bans dry cargo imports while people starve

by Bradley K. Martin July 13, 2021July 16, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

The Pope going to Pyongyang: for what?

by Bradley K. Martin July 8, 2021July 12, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Credible reports of a North Korean food crisis

by Bradley K. Martin July 6, 2021July 9, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

North Korean regime seeks sympathy for ‘thin’ Kim

by Bradley K. Martin June 28, 2021July 1, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Kim not exaggerating the food shortage; it’s bad

by Bradley K. Martin June 24, 2021June 24, 2021
Posted inObituary

Japanese journalism giant Takashi Tachibana dies

by Bradley K. Martin June 23, 2021June 26, 2021

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