Fieldwork in North Korea: A Challenging but Necessary Scientific Field (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series of two articles based on the book Faire du terrain en Corée du Nord (Doing…
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Fieldwork in North Korea: A Challenging but Necessary Scientific Field (Part 1)
What is truly known about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)?[1] In the social sciences, most…
Tightening the Screws: Kim Jong Un’s Clampdown on “Capitalist Tendencies”
Although North Korea is one of the harshest totalitarian states in the world, it is not as static as observers…
The Regime Strikes Back: A New Era of North Korean Information Controls
Nearly every North Korea watcher will tell you that the famine of the mid-1990’s fundamentally altered North Korean society and…