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Tag: Kim Il Sung

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 inNorth Korea

Why the Kim regime just won’t die: a primer

by Denny Roy February 2, 2022February 7, 2022
Posted inNorth Korea

Three Kim generations of misery for North Korea

by Sung-Yoon Lee December 19, 2021December 21, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

After 10 years, Kim III faces multiple Catch-22s

by Andrew Salmon December 17, 2021December 24, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Goodbye Chairman Kim; Hello President Kim

by Andrew Salmon February 20, 2021February 23, 2021
Not quite Seoul mates – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea President Moon Jae-in in a friendly embrace at their second summit in North Korea. Photo: The Blue House
Posted inNorth-South Korea

Seoul’s retroactive justice dooms North-South reunification

by Andrew Salmon January 16, 2021January 20, 2021
Posted inNorth Korea

Kim mea culpa signals economic rethink for North Korea

by Andrew Salmon January 6, 2021January 8, 2021
Posted inKorean War Legacies

Belated American apology for Korean War massacre

by Andrew Salmon November 16, 2020November 19, 2020
Posted inKorean War Legacies

War aftermath set Pyongyang’s’ militarism in stone

by Bradley K. Martin June 23, 2020June 25, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea

Is Kim Jong Un’s sister next in line in North Korea?

by Bradley K. Martin June 15, 2020August 26, 2020
Posted inNortheast Asia

Why media get North Korea wrong

by Andrew Salmon and Mitch Shin May 7, 2020May 11, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea

Inside North Korea’s ‘Game of Thrones’

by Andrew Salmon April 22, 2020May 1, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea

Where art thou Supreme Leader Kim? Five theories

by Bradley K. Martin April 19, 2020April 29, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea

Korean obsession: dad hijacked North 50 years ago

by Sunghee Hwang December 5, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, North Korea, Northeast Asia

Starved in North Korea and kidnapped in China

by Andrew Salmon November 26, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inJapan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, South Korea, United States, World

Can’t let ‘hat strings’ tactic divide Seoul, Tokyo

by Tara O November 22, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia

Public sector to save North Korean schools: Kim

by Bradley K. Martin October 22, 2019February 18, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Mount Paektu. Photo: KCNA via Reuters
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia

The cataclysm that created a Korean icon

by Sebastien Berger October 6, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inNorth Korea, Northeast Asia

Choe Ryong Hae: man of many titles

by Bradley K. Martin April 26, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inNortheast Asia

More foreigners in Pyongyang marathon

by Alan Bonini April 7, 2019February 18, 2020

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