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Open Sources, Aug. 23, 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
NOW THAT EVERYONE HAS SUDDENLY DISCOVERED THAT North Korea has a meth problem, I thought I’d link this five-year-old post and let you read (or reread) what OFK readers read way back when. (There’s ple...
Is North Korea importing oil from Iran? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:12 pm
Remember when Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard wrote that North Korea, notwithstanding the deepening misery of most of its people, had begun to show a current account surplus in recent years? Their c...
North Korea’s “charm offensive” coincides with growing international financial pressure 21 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
Observers in the West and South Korea tend to grasp (even gasp) at subtle or superficial changes in the tone of North Korea’s words, but the consistency of North Korea’s actions has always refuted the...
Kaesong deal leaves more questions that answers 19 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
“Precisely what North Koreans do with earnings from Kaesong, I think, is something that we are concerned about.” - David Cohen, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence...
Open Sources, August 15, 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 04:50 pm
HAVES AND CAN’T HAVES: Two million North Koreans have “authorized” cell phones; meanwhile, the regime is cracking down on the unauthorized kind. I default to skepticism of any self-serving claims th...
A hero, buried in the State Department’s memory hole 14 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
In case you were wondering, no, I’m still not over that whole North Korea / state-sponsor-of-terrorism thing. The Weekly Standard has helped me nurse this old grudge by printing my fisking of the Sta...
Kim Jong Un, Castro, and Homer Simpson form Apiary of Evil 13 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
The Panama weapons seizure happened last month, before I ended my hiatus, but let me offer these brief observations. First, good for Panama. Second, North Korea still doesn’t care what the U.N. Secu...
The Daily NK: Keeping the promises that the Sunshine Policy couldn’t 12 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
In a land of scarcity, North Korea’s scarcest commodity is truth, and it is truth that is transforming North Korea. In the last ten years, North Korea’s death-grip on the flow of food, consumer goods...
AP Vice President Celebrates Great Fatherland Liberation War! 10 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
One of my favorite media experiments is to observe different reporters with different biases cover similar stories in very different ways. The anniversary of the end of the Korean War was our most rec...
Rep. Albio Sires and Rabbi Abraham Cooper on Human Rights in North Korea 8 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
I’ll begin a gradual return from my hiatus by linking to this excellent op-ed by Rep. Albio Sires, Democrat from New Jersey, on the imperative of addressing North Korea’s human rights abuses. It’s a w...
