Koreabloggen is new DPRK-centric blog in Swedish, so if you can read this, “Välkommen till Koreabloggen! Här kommer det att skrivas förhoppningsvis dagligen om vad som händer på Koreahalvön och särskilt den norra delen, Nordkorea,” then it’s something you might want to check out.
In a previous post on Pyongyang Soju being imported to the U.S., I used pics from a bottle I have, which was purchased in South Korea. Jason Perlow of Off the Broiler sampled some Pyongyang Soju at a Korean restaurant in New Jersey and has photos of the updated labels (looks like it was $5.99 a bottle).
- #OFK has a telling post (w/video) on Joe Biden's North Korea policy. It's hard to do much of a related post on Obama since he hasn't even completed one term in the senate and so has a thin record. See all Election 2008 posts.
- #15 August is the 63rd anniversary of Victory over Japan (V-J) Day, or Liberation Day in North and South Korea. It’s hard to imagine how the North Koreans could explain the significance of the day without mentioning the U.S. doing the heavy lifting, but they still manage to do so.
- #North Korean Economy Watch has released version 11 of his layer/bookmarks for North Korea in Google Earth - easily the most authoritative map of North Korea on the web.
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August 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Hi! Good news for me - I can read it!
I’ll pop over there straight away and find out if it is any good. Thanks for the tip!
Cordelia
August 21st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Glad to point you in that direction, and interesting to know that at least a couple of Swedish speakers have stumbled across DPRK Studies. I hope Koreabloggen is a good read.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
isn’t kji a great admirer of swedes ?..
August 21st, 2007 at 8:17 pm
or dearly admires swedes..
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
First of all, Richardson, thank you very much for giving a few people directions to my blog!
Ghola,
well, as a matter of fact I think that KJI actually told the former prime minister of Sweden Göran Persson (when he was heading an EU-delegation in Pyongyang in 2000) that he was looking at a few different kinds of welfare states from around the world in order to get new ideas for how to improve the DPRK social system, and that he had found the swedish one very interesting! The right-wing people of Sweden sure have had some fun about that…
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
No problem, I hope a lot of traffic comes your way.