Morgan Potts is the editor for the Tongsin (통신) project at Sino-NK, examining North Korean news media which relates to China and the Sino-DPRK relationship. … Continue readingRusso-Chinese Relations, US-ROK War Games, and the Facade of a United Sino-DPRK Perspective: Tongsin no. 5
Morgan Potts’ regular feature on Sino-NK enters its fourth edition. The latest Tongsin for March–May 2014 examines the DPRK response to US-ROK war games and the Sewol disaster, in which the North attempts to illustrate a united Sino-DPRK perspective that is both anti-American and anti-South Korean. … Continue readingTongsin | 통신 no. 4: War Games and the Sewol Sinking
Tongsin | 통신 is source data analysis of DPRK state media Rodong Sinmun and the KCNA. At Sino-NK I’ve examined the months preceding the Jang Song-taek execution, which was a symbolic severing of the DPRK dependence on China. … Continue readingTongsin | 통신 no. 01
The possibility for nuclear war was at an all-time high in 1983, rivaling the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis: the Soviets had just shot down the civilian Korean flight KAL-007, and Reagan gave his manichean “evil empire” speech. Able Archer 83, the 1983 NATO command post exercise … Continue readingNewly Declassified Able Archer 83 Documents