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View ArticleAll the World’s a Stage. Looking Again at North Korea: Beyond Charismatic...
Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang | Image: Wikicommons The practical effect of state ideology on a target audience is notoriously tough to measure. In North Korea, unless a sheer lack of violent...
View ArticleReining in Rent-Seeking: How North Korea Can Survive
How much “currency” do the ruling elites have in North Korea? Unregulated market activites and rent-seeking are curtailing the power and influence of those at the highest levels of government. | Image:...
View ArticleA Primer on North Korea’s Economy: An Interview with Andrei Lankov
Who produces what, how, and where? | Image: Wiki Commons From 1961 onward, argues Charles Armstrong, North Korea’s internal economic and political structures were such that the onset of economic...
View ArticleSino-NK 2013 Rewind: The Byungjin Line and North Korea in an Era of Songun...
“Forward Korea, Forward (in the direction of) Byungjin” reads the text to the KCTV video for the Byjungjin line on YouTube. | Image: Uriminzokkiri YouTube Channel While the execution of Jang Sung-taek...
View ArticleBefore the Collapse: The Micro-foundations of Marketization in North Korea
A 1992 edition 100 won note, no longer in circulation | Image: Mike Rowe/Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 It is unfortunate that English-language research into North Korean economic matters remains limited...
View ArticleAfter the Collapse: The Formalization of Market Structures in North Korea,...
The entrance to a market in Hyesan; screengrab from “KBS Panorama.” | Image: Destination Pyongyang/Sino-NK In the second article of his series on Korean research into North Korean contemporary economic...
View ArticleAnd the Show Goes On: How the State Survived Marketization
Tattered but still functioning, the North Korean state is adjusting its relationship with society via the market. | Image: Stephan/Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 The 1990s were trying times in North...
View ArticleLocal and Limited: The Sociopolitical Implications of Segmented Marketization...
The entrance to a market in Hyesan (screengrab from “KBS Panorama”). | Image: Sino-NK Economists and political scientists looking at North Korea agree that the country’s economy has “marketized” — i.e....
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