NORTH KoreaGAME theorySOCIAL dynamicsThe purpose of the article is to explain the mechanisms behind the stability of the North Korean regime with regard to social dynamics. The continuing survival of the regime decades after the fall of its former patron and sponsor, the Soviet Union, poses an ...
Korean War- a war between North and South Korea; South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations; 1950-1953 Inchon- a battle in the Korean War (1950); United States forces landed at Inchon Yalu River- a battle in the Korean War (November 1950); when...
Because microdistricts satisfied the communities' social requirements and facilitated mass-produced urban housing, the North Korean regime enthusiastically appropriated the microdistrict concept to fit its own reality. This theory has been applied to the country's urban projects since 1955, a time when...
Many experts believe that these policies of the North Korean government, beginning in the aftermath of the Korean War, have been an obstacle to the country's economic development. The shortcomings of these policies were accentuated by the regime's focus onsongun(a style of military-first politics...
Hahaha. I do but I “blame” the book. I don’t think I would have watched a North Korean film straight through to the end in my entire life if it hadn’t been for this. Now I really enjoy them because I see a whole country, a whole culture, a whole world reflected in them an...
An Army report has the following information in part regarding North Korea: A new assessment made by theUnited States Department of the Army estimatesthat the North Korean regime is in possession of massive amounts of conventional and non-conventional weapons that they are “highly likely” to us...
This greatly restricts the autonomy and the range of choices of the new incumbent, suggesting that path dependence is relevant in the case of the North Korean regime.doi:10.1080/10357823.2013.868864ParkYong SooRoutledgeAsian Studies ReviewYong Soo Park, "Policies and Ideologies of the Kim Jong-un...
“We have never sought war with North Korea, and still today we do not seek it. If war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday,” she said. “And if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.” ...
it, just a few years earlier, as the Bush administration’s point man on North Korea. In that case, he used the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act to cut off Pyongyang by going after Banco Delta Asia, a Macau-based bank that made illicit financial transactions on behalf of the North Korean regime...
Image: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects Masik Pass ski resort, Kangwon province. Courtesy of the AFP/Getty Images, Guardian. While the North Korean regime is clearly bonkers (“crazy” for our U.S. readers), it does still turn out some fascinating art. ...