Reading Aidan Foster-Carter’s “Budget Blanks and Blues,” I feel inspired to add my own slightly more optimistic thoughts on the analytical value of North Korean annual budget reports, in particular,...Read More
As I write this article, April is already more than half over. In North Korea, the party is over, bar the shouting. But in Pyongyang, the shouting never really stops,...Read More
This article is based on a summary of a paper for Session II, “Social Control as an Obstacle to Economic Development” for a conference on “The Viability of the North...Read More
The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason ~ T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral (1935) The poet’s words are haunting. But...Read More