Via AFP: “A North Korean defector Tuesday announced the launch of a magazine carrying undercover reporting by [DPRK] citizens… Some reporters for the bi-monthly Rimjingang are refugees who returned home after being trained in neighbouring China in journalism skills, said chief editor Choi Jin-I… who settled in South Korea in 1999… The first, Korean-language, edition was published Tuesday.”
Via the Times: "The exhibition features 400 hand-painted posters dating from the peak of the Dear Leader Kim Sung Il's power in the 1950s to the present regime led by his son, Kim Jong Il." The article has only one image, but has several interesting propaganda quotes.
- #Young Korean Herrenvolk engaging in their version of Agoge, at least according to the New York Times. The two Korean schools mentioned in the article are similar to Exeter or Andover in the United States in someways (they are private academies that serve children of affluent parents). But my guess is that the studious atmosphere and intense regimen compare more to the likes of Stuyvesant (my alma mater) in NYC or T.J. in Virginia (both highly selective, but publicly-funded high schools).
- #North Korea claims that on 25 April 1932 the Korean People’s Army (KPA, 조선인민군/ Chosŏn inmin'gun) was formed. However, the more likely accurate date is 08 February 1948. It is celebrated as “Military Foundation Day” in Kimland.
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February 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Is there any chance of this publication being translated into english, or another western language?
Thanks!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 am
The BBC article on this states that the publication will be translated into both Japanese and English.
May 6th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Is there any chance of this publication being posted on the web?
May 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Buy it from the Rainbow Trading Co. on-line:
http://www.rainbow-trading.co.jp/SHOP/661.html
May 9th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Or even better - directly from the publisher:
http://www.asiapress.org/korea