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Don’t Fear the Tiger: Huanqiu Shibao, Chinese Delegations, and Netizen...
“Relevant parties” in Okinawa make their feelings clearly known about North Korea’s intention to launch a missile, a point that has not been lost on Chinese readers. | Image via Yomiuri Shimbun Don’t...
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Ri Sol-ju, Conspicuous Wealth, and the “Military Wife” Type in the DPRK
Pointing the Economically Useless Man to the Future – Image via China Radio International One Korean phrase (사자성어) used to describe the ideal wife from both a male and female perspective is...
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The Passing of Kim Jong-il (1): North Korea Still Mired in “Charismatic...
Kim Jong-il may have passed away, but his political style lives on. In the first of an anniversary collection musing on this and much, much more, SinoNK coordinator Roger Cavazos seizes on a must-read...
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Red Glare: Chinese Responses to the DPRK’s Launch
Figure 1: The prospect of Japan shooting down a DPRK missile drew Chinese attention as an act that would be distinctly harmful to Chinese security. The pace of events accelerates in and around on the...
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Considering a Reset of China’s ‘Special Relationship’ with North Korea:...
Abby Huntsman, pictured with SinoNK’s Adam Cathcart, leads a conversation about the past, present, and future of the Chinese-North Korean relationship. Considering a Reset of China’s ‘Special...
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Seven Fingers: China’s New Leadership and North Korea Policy
China’s new Politburo Standing Committee members: Party Secretary Xi Jinping (center), Zhang Dejiang, Li Keqiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, Zhang Gaoli (listed clockwise from top left)....
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Charisma vs. the Power Grid: Calculating Priorities and Hallucinations in Kim...
Kim Jong-un (L, 2014) and Kim Il-sung (R, 1994) delivering New Year’s addresses. Gardener employed, resemblance intended; charisma transferred, leadership secured. Picture via NK Leadership Watch On...
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Googling North Korea: Weighing Notions of Technocratic Boost
Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt just prior to delivering the keynote speech entitled “Freedom from Fear” at the Google Ideas Illicit Networks Conference in July 2012. Schmidt is pictured with...
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Cooling the Nuclear Hotspot: Advocating a PRC Nuclear Umbrella for North Korea
A Chinese nuclear umbrella means the Unha is no longer needed. Photo via Oldkids.cn [Update: Based on a conversation with arms control specialists Jeffrey Lewis, Andrea Berger, and Gregory Kulaki, we...
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Report: Foreigners Not Allowed to Bring Cell Phones to Sinuiju [Updated]
SinoNK remains vested in our standard brand of in-depth analysis, but we are also endeavouring to be a bit more agile with our posts this spring, as we think about ways to best serve our readers. The...
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Forecasting Breakthrough in DPRK-Japan Relations: Zhang Liangui
In the lead-up to today’s outburst by the DPRK, Chinese experts sent an array of messages to, and about, North Korea. Zhang Liangui tends to be one of the heavier messengers. In the article translated...
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The View From Beijing: North Korea as a Path for U.S.-China Cooperation
The yin/yang and ebb/flow of North Korea’s theater state antics play out near Beijing’s opera house. But it can be painful when the water freezes | photo via DVYang Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga was in...
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Smoke Bombs and Tunnels: Chinese Experts Probe North Korea’s Nuclear Intentions
Gang of Four: Qiu Zhenhai as moderator meets with pro-North Korean businesswoman Li Yazhen (top right) and professors Zhu Jiarong (center right) and Zhu Feng (bottom right). Smoke Bombs and Tunnels:...
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Incinerated Fantasy: Kim Jong-un, Zhu Feng, and a Censored Article in Beijing
Incinerated Fantasy: Kim Jong-un, Zhu Feng, and a Censored Article in Beijing On February 2, Peking University professor Zhu Feng put forward an op-ed that was ground-breaking in its criticism of the...
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When the Bomb Goes Boom: Gauging China’s Policy Responses
North Korea at the center – but China’s reaction is key. Photo via Xinhua When the Bomb Goes Boom: Gauging China’s Response In the interest of reviewing past translations and providing context for...
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Exit the Dragon: SinoNK’s Roundtable on 2012 Reads
By North Korean standards, this is a shockingly spontaneous photo | Talking shop, via Rodong Sinmun Here at SinoNK, we do a great deal of “shop talk” within and surrounding our community of interested...
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No More Firewall: Qiao Xinsheng on the DPRK’s Militant Isolation
Chinese Border Guards Training near the DPRK, March 25, 2012. When it comes to any given issue, China’s staggering diversity of opinion is rarely fully reflected in the massive but often blinkered...
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Atomic Aftermath: An Op-Ed Glossary
via Global Times North Korea. Fortunately there is no other country like it. What they do, how they do it and why they do it provide pundits with fodder from A to Z. In a spirit of trying to bring...
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Hauling in the U.S.-DPRK Rebound: Two Opposing Chinese Perspectives
The hand keeping the lid on North Korea can also set it free. Whose hand? Picture via Military China.com, a Singaporean company with offices in China and Hong Kong. Hauling in the U.S.-DPRK Rebound:...
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Counterpoint to Basketball Diplomacy: Beuys in Beijing, Beethoven in Pyongyang
Joseph Beuys knew a thing or three about modern totalitarianism: as a young man he bore personal witness to the symbolism of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies. Yet by 2011 Beuys had taken on a different...
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