A few days ago I noticed that DPRK Studies had been removed from the Weblogs section of the Wikipedia page on North Korea, so I added it back.
Wikipedia user Mthibault decided it was an, “inappropriate external link” and it was, “considered spamming,” and deleted DPRK Studies from that list of blogs.
I […]
While WordPress (WP) is an excellent, free platform for blogging, there is a tendency for upgrades to break blogs, plug-ins, and favorite themes. On one level this can be expected; progress must occur and not every feature and be backwards compatible. However, WP developers have largely failed to prepare non-technical users for some of […]
One of my favorite Korea bloggers, The Lost Nomad, is closing up shop, though for a good reason; to spend more time with family (and to go fishing more!). He’ll be remembered at his best:
Commenter Jack has started a new North Korea-centric blog, DPRK Forum. From what I can tell, the author is fairly new to the area but has been reading widely and voraciously on the subject, and I expect to see many interesting observations at DPRK Forum. As a starter, try this post on the intelligence […]
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. […]
First, a little disclosure: long time readers of this blog, Joshua’s blog (One Free Korea), and the now defunct joint blog Joshua, Richardson and I created in the past (The Korea Liberator) probably remember that the joint project unraveled under a less than amicable circumstance. We had different ideas about how to run the […]
A few posts on the Koreas to blogs I don’t normally link to.
MT Shortwave Central: Japan to launch radio channel for North Korea; “The Japanese government will launch a radio channel for North Korea focusing on Japanese citizens abducted by Pyongyang…”
London Korean Links: British-North Korea Parliamentary Group meeting; “At the session on 19 June, […]
Update: I tried this last night and it’s very impressive – recommended to anyone who uses Google Earth and has an interest in North Korea.
Original post: Curtis Melvin of the North Korea Economy Watch blog has put together and made available a download for Google Earth, billed as, “the most authoritative map of North […]
Kevin of Big Hominid’s Hairy Chasms (worth a drive by just to see the banner) has a new book out; Water from a Skull. What from where? Don’t worry, I believe the title is a reference to Korean folklore, or something along those lines, and the genre is religion and spiritually:
Description: This book is […]
The latest version of WordPress made several noticeable improvements, aside from the usual security fixes. A few are:
Autosave
Tabbed editor allows switching between WYSIWYG and code editing while writing a post
Blogroll links with sub-categories
Comment feeds now include all the comments, not just the last 10
A better picture upload manager
An XML import/export tool
A new version of […]
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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