Having recently taken up the thoroughly engaging if not slightly masochistic hobby of reading North Korea related literature, I would like to share on this blog some of my thoughts on these works and to …

It’s quite an interesting time to be studying North Korea to say the least. With the actions of North Korea and so much information in the news, it has been quite difficult to wade through …

On March 24, Suk-Young Kim, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of California at Santa Barbara, delivered a talk on “Dancing Through the Revolution: Performing Revolutionary Women in China and North Korea,” …

As part of its ongoing speaker series, the North Korea Research Group, a joint undergraduate and graduate student initiative sponsored by the Munk Centre and Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, recently hosted two …

Because discussion of North Korea tends to be so heavily focused on the subjects of nuclear nonproliferation, regime survival and the increasing number of refugee claimants fleeing famine and gross human rights abuses, it is …

As rumors of Kim Jong Il’s allegedly failing health abound, issues of leadership succession and the explicit transfer of power from Kim to an as yet unnamed individual or faction once more emerge as key …

In any humanitarian or developmental assistance policy, there exist a variety of moral and operational dilemmas. North Korea is perhaps the epitome of such a dilemma. Quietly snuggled behind the front page news of the …