by ZoominKorea | Feb 16, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, NK-SK Relations, Peace and Militarism
By Hyun Lee Perhaps the most moving moment in the opening days of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics was when Kim Yong-nam, the president of the Presidium of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly, quietly wiped his tears as North and South Korean singers sang in unison...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 11, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, US-ROK Alliance
This article was originally published in Counterpunch. By Ramsay Liem Never before has North Korea loomed so large in the U.S. imagination. No longer just a problem “over there,” North Korea has emerged as a much more immediate threat, one with the power to unleash...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 7, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
By Kim Soobok (Translation and edits by Hyun Lee) Continued from Part 1 During Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945, the colonial government extracted all of Korea’s rice to Japan and left very little for Koreans. Having rice with meat broth was a...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 6, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
By Kim Soobok (Translation and edits by Hyun Lee) Continued from Intro After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc in the 1990’s, North Korea lost eighty percent of its trade and saw a drastic decline in its ability to import oil. Imagine trying...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 6, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK
North Korea is arguably the most sanctioned country on earth. U.S. sanctions against North Korea have been in place since the 1950s, and a series of UN resolutions in the past decade have forbidden, among others, the export of coal, iron, and seafood, and banned North...
by ZoominKorea | Feb 2, 2018 | Analysis, DPRK, N-S Relations, Peace and Militarism, Trump, US-ROK Alliance
This article was originally published in The Nation. By Tim Shorrock On February 9, in a scenario that would have been unimaginable to most Americans a month ago, North and South Korean athletes will march into the opening ceremonies of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic...
