• Enter Pyongyang
  from JT Singh Plus 1 week ago Not Yet Rated “Enter Pyongyang” is another stunning collaboration between city-­branding pioneer JT Singh and flow-motion videographer Rob Whitworth. Blending time-lapse photography, acceleration and slow motion, HD and digital animation, they have produced a cutting-edge panorama of a city hardly known, but one emerging on the visitor’s landscape as North Korea’s opening unfolds. North Korea was the last country seemingly immune to change—but no longer. Recent years have witnessed mobile phone penetration, a surge in tourists, and even a marathon. Numerous special economic zones have been launched in cooperation with China, Russia, and South Korea, with railways planned linking all countries in the region. “Enter Pyongyang” captures not just the city, but this dynamism and sense of potential [Video]

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• Why Aren't People on the Streets for North Korea?
  Posted: 06/08/2014 12:41 BST Updated: 06/08/2014 12:59 BST Ten days ago, I spoke at an event in New Malden on North Korea, alongside a former captain in the North Korean army who has become one of the regime's most vocal exiled critics. About 40 people attended. I left satisfied - it seemed a good turnout for a Saturday night meeting on an obscure topic in suburbia. The audience seemed moved, and some were keen to help. But then I reflected on it again, and I thought: hang on a minute. North Korea is the world's most closed nation, and its most repressive. At least 100,000 people are incarcerated in prison camps described as even worse than Nazi concentration camps or Stalin's gulag. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on North Korea has concluded that the regime is guilty of "a wide array" of "crimes against humanity", crimes that are "unspeakable", and suggesting that "the gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world". It has called for a case to be brought to the International Criminal Court. Justice Michael Kirby, the Australian judge who chaired the UN investigation, has said he is not exaggerating when he compares North Korea's human rights crisis with the Holocaust.
  Benedict Rogers East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission [Hardliner] [NGO] [Religion]

• A Roundtable Review of Charles Armstrong’s Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992
  By Sino-NK | October 03, 2013 | 3 Comments Sino-NK’s second official roundtable review covers Columbia University professor Charles Armstrong’s latest book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992. In 1847, French politician Alphonse de Lamartine said, “History teaches everything, including the future.” Charles K. Armstrong, a professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University, certainly takes this quote to heart in his new book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992. By analyzing North Korea’s history, the observer can come to a better prediction of what the future may hold for North Korea.
• Author’s Response to Sino-NK Roundtable on Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992
  By Charles Armstrong | November 25, 2013 For all the ink being spilled and pixels being pushed about North Korea on any given day, genuine investigations of the DPRK’s history and pre-history are precious few. The years of painstaking archival research in various languages are beyond the abilities of most — limits, perhaps, of both skill and endurance. And yet, the devoted and the new readers of English material about North Korea still need a more complete understanding both of the DPRK’s domestic politics and its foreign policy. Since receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and taking up an important post at Columbia University, Charles Armstrong has been and remains a leading authoritative voice in the effort to investigate and clarify the history of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and its interactions with the world. We at Sino-NK were delighted to be among the first to review his new book (in roundtable format, with the assistance of Cornell University Press) and Dr. Armstrong was kind enough to continue the discourse and respond to our review. — Adam Cathcart, Editor-in-Chief Author’s Response to Sino-NK Roundtable on Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 – 1992 by Charles K. Armstrong I would like to thank all the contributors to Sino-NK for their thoughtful comments on Tyranny of the Weak, which gave me much to consider. Such feedback is certainly encouraging for an author, suggesting that the fruits of his intellectual labor are reaching an audience that takes the work seriously. No book is without its flaws, of course, and I appreciate the critical comments as well as the praise – although I reserve the right to disagree with the former where appropriate!

• FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEWS: Making ends meat
  By Anna Fifield, Financial Times
  Published: Mar 03, 2007 Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland Columbia University Press £22.50, 368 pages During one visit to Pyongyang, I was having dinner with some North Korean officials when one noticed I was not eating the beef laid out in front of us at the garishly decorated foreign currency restaurant. Learning that I was a vegetarian, he responded with a laugh: "You'd fit right in here - there's never any meat around."

• Who Is Fun For Louis?
  Louis Cole makes a Daily Vlog of his life! He enjoys travelling the world with friends, having fun and inspiring others! Fun For Louis MAP is an interactive map that allows you to see where each vlog took place, what travelling was done in that vlog, and lets you have another sense of being along for the adventure. [EWA][Bizarre]