The lack of recent posts will continue for an unknown period of time as I’ve been busy at work, and engaged in other projects at home. I do plan on resuming daily posting at some unknown point in the future. I also still monitor all things North Korea daily and likely will post [...]
I’ve been very busy with work, family, and reserves the past few weeks. The pace is not expected to let up any time soon, but as there are lulls I’ll post updates.
Missed it on the 30th as I was working late, but it’s now been four years since DPRK Studies has been in blog format.
Happy New Year 2009! May this be the one that sees improvement for the North Korean people.
A CZ 75B.
Just returned from three weeks in Korea - Inchon (Un-seo-dong), Tae-an, Kong-ju, and Sokcho; but not Seoul - and will have a few posts on that over the next week. If felt like a helluva lot longer than three weeks, but that’s a different story. I didn’t have net access most of that time, so [...]
I’ll be very busy and mostly without net access until mid-July.
Wishing all of you a happy New Year 2008! May this be the one that Kim Jong-il doesn’t make it past. A reading suggestion; Dave Barry’s year in review (h/t Bodhi).
Since mid-2007 the pace of posts has slowed substantially due to both the birth of my son and my decision to go back into the military (this time as a reserve officer). For awhile I though I could resume the same tempo, but it’s just not possible; I’ve too many irons in the fire. Although [...]
After almost three weeks of nearly no blogging, we’ve figured out enough of a new schedule and have begun to overcome exhaustion enough to seek some normality - or at least select parts of the old normality. The little guy is doing very good, gaining weight on schedule, and doing all the right things. It [...]
After missile and nuclear tests and uranium enrichment, the U.S. sanctions North Korean firms while Pyongyang reverses, making overtures. It’s not an accident, it’s a pattern of strategic disengagement.
- #Vanity Fair, of all publications, has a lengthy article on North Korea’s counterfeiting operations, including Office 39. Well worth a read. (h/t NE Asia Matters)
- #The Chosun Ilbo has an article about a new book by Chang Jin-song (formerly affiliated with the North Korean Workers' Party) that details Kim Jong-il private life, including the inside scoop on all his lady friends. According to Chang, one unfortunate young lady to get Kim's attention was, "brutally executed after she spurned Kim's persistent advances and fell in love with another man."
- #Gizmodo has an excellent array of Kim Jong-il photos; In Which We Provoke Kim Jong Il in 77 Offensive and Hilarious Ways. Some are sure to become often used classics.
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