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Recommended readings - the PY2 list

North Korea's long, subtle game (A. Foster-Carter) ATol 12 Feb 2005
North Korea: a chronology of events (US Congress) 24 Jan 2005
China's 'S&M' journal goes too far on Korea (John Tkacik) ATol 2 Sep 2004
Four Decades in North Korea (interview with Jenkins) FEER 1 Sep 2004
Bush's U-turn: Too Little, Too Late (A. Foster-Carter) ATol 30 Jun 2004
Six-Party Glacier: Did the US Melt? (A. Foster-Carter) ATol 29 Jun 2004
Designing Public Capital Mobilization Strategies for DPRK (Bradley Babson) Nautilus Jun 2004
First Tremor in the Last Outpost (Tim Judah) The Guardian 29 May 2004
US Economic Diplomacy toward North Korea (Marc Noland) IIE 21 May 2004
The North Korean Conundrum (Selig Harrison) The Nation 20 May 2004
Double jeopardy for North Korean defectors (A. Foster-Carter) ATol 18 May 2004
Comment on the North Korea Freedom Act (John Feffer) tompaine.com 10 May 2004
The Legal Framework of US–North Korea Trade Relations (Marc Noland) IIE 27 Apr 2004
Statement Regarding "The North Korean Freedom Act of 2003" and "North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004" (The Korean Civil Society) Nautilus 27 Apr 2004
Brownback Bill Will Not Solve North Korea's Problems (Hazel Smith) Nautilus 20 Apr 2004
The Bush Administration's Failed North Korea Policy (Peter Beck) CanKor 14 Apr 2004
Pyongyang Report: Commentary (T. Beal) 1 Apr 2004
North Korea chooses guns over butter (A. Foster-Carter) ATol 1 Apr 2004
Book interview: Target North Korea (G. McCormack) ABC 29 Mar 2004
The Pain of Good Intentions (N.D. Kristof) CanKor 26 Mar 2004
The North Korean Freedom Act: a prescription for chaos (W.S. Cheong) OhmyNews 17 Mar 2004
Book review: Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital (P. French) The Asian Review of Books 7 Mar 2004
DPRK karaoke song 'Pangapsumnida' One-Corea.net 5 Mar 2004
Official statements for second round of 6-party talks Nautilus 5 Mar 2004
The reactor that was never finished (J.P. Leng) IHT 3 Mar 2004
Korea: Long-term Decline in the North Korea Premium (D. Dwor-Frecaut) Barclays Capital 27 Feb 2004
The multilateral mantra and North Korea (P. Hayes) Nautilus 20 Feb 2004
Pyongyang's Tightrope-Walker (M. Noland) FEER 17 Feb 2004
Making Sense of the Korean Crisis (G. McCormack) ZNet 15 Feb 2004
Ensuring a Korean Peninsula Free of Nuclear Weapons (J. Kelly) Nautilus 13 Feb 2004
Enemy to Friend: Providing Security Assurances to North Korea (P. Hayes) Nautilus 9 Feb 2004
A stuggle for survival (MacIloy) The Guardian 10 Feb 2004
The Six-Party Talks Can Succeed (Leon Sigal) Nautilus 3 Feb 2004
Scepticism over gas tests (Len) IHT 3 Feb 2004
Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag (Barnett) Observer 1 Feb 2004
Don't try regime change in North Korea (Bennett and Hachigian) IHT 30 Jan 2004
Hope on North Korea (John Lewis) Washington Post 27 Jan 2004
How Bush Risks Losing Korea (M. Noland) Financial Times 22 Jan 2004
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hearing - Visit to Yongbyon (Siegfried Hecker) Nautilus 21 Jan 2004
Book review: North Korea's Dear Leader: a man of contradictions ATol 16 Jan 2004
The North Korea Deadlock: A Report from the Region (C. Pritchard) Nautilus 15 Jan 2004
US Neo-conservative policy proposals for the DPRK ATol 13 Jan 2004
Korea after Kim Jong Il (M. Noland) IIE 11 Jan 2004
Study (Noland) Says Reforms Pose Risk for N.Korea Government AlertNet 6 Jan 2004
In North Korea, First Save Lives (Masood Hyder) Washington Post 4 Jan 2004
Giving Lip Service with an Attitude: North Korea's China Debate (A. Mansourov) Nautilus 26 Dec 2003
Requisites for Resolving the Nuclear Question (Li Gun) CNP 16 Dec 2003
North Korea - New Lessons Learned (Philip Yun) Nautilus 12 Dec 2003
Seven Step Policy to Solve the North Korean Nuclear Problem (P. Hayes) Nautilus 18 Nov 2003
Negotiating with the North (Leon V. Sigal) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nov-Dec 2003
How North Korea is embracing capitalism by any other name (Jonathan Watts) The Guardian 3 Dec 2003
Bush's North Korea policy still a shambles (Aidan Foster-Carter) ATol 26 Nov 2003
Cautiously, North Korea opens toward the South (James Brooke) IHT 24 Nov 2003
Seoul's secret success (Aidan Foster-Carter) ATol 19 Nov 2003
Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Humanitarian Appeal 2004 for DPRK (UNOCHA) 18 Nov 2003
UN OCHA DPRK Humanitarian Situation Bulletin Sep-Oct 2003 (UNOCHA) 14 Nov 2003
Summary Report regarding Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) staff Luse and Jannuzi's Aug 21-Sep 2, 2003 trip to North Korea (Nautilus) 14 Nov 2003
Korea expose will draw fire (Brendan Kelly) Montreal Gazette 8 Nov 2003
Korea: The Unfinished War (Tim Robinson) The Silhouette 6 Nov 2003
Despite improved harvests, North Korea urgently needs food aid for millions of people at risk (WFP) 30 Oct 2003
FAO/WFP crop and food supply assessment mission to the DPRK (FAO/WFP) 30 Oct 2003
Freedom fighter or traitor? (Aidan Foster-Carter) ATol 9 Oct 2003
Bush's Bipolar Disorder and the Looming Failure of Multilateral Talks With North Korea (Peter Hayes) Nautilus 8 Oct 2003
Diplomatic Fantasyland: The Illusion of a Negotiated Solution to the North Korean Nuclear Crisis (Nicholas Eberstadt) Nautilus 23 Sep 2003
List of Members of DPRK NDC, Presidium of SPA and State Leadership Organs (People's Korea) 11 Sep 2003
N. Korea: Fibs versus Facts (Leon V. Sigal) Nautilus 5 Aug 2003
A Korean Krakatoa? Scenarios for the Peaceful Resolution of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis (Nautilus) Aug 2003
Fearful symmetry: Washington and Pyongyang (John Feffer) ATol 15 Jul 2003
Famine and Reform in North Korea (Marcus Noland) IIE Jul 2003
Interdiction May Not Just Modify North Korea's Behavior (Mindy Kotler) Nautilus 13 Jun 2003
North Korea: 'Gigantic Change' and a Gigantic Chance (Ruediger Frank) Nautilus 9 May 2003
Crisis in North Korea: the U.S. Strategic Future in East Asia (Desaix Anderson) Nautilus 27 Mar 2003
Assessment of the North Korean Missile Threat (David C. Wright ) Nautilus 18 Mar 2003
Economic Cooperation On The Korean Peninsula (Bradley O. Babson) Task Force on US Korea policy 6 Mar 2003
Gulags on both sides of the DMZ (Gavan McCormack) ABC Radio National Mar 2003
DPR Korea: Nutrition Assessment 2002 (UNICEF) 20 Feb 2003
A Korean exit strategy for the US (Sreeram Chaulia) ATol 1 Feb 2003
Putting Pressure on Rogues (Gavan McCormack) Nautilus 15 Jan 2003
Inside North Korea's ruling elite (AsiaInt) AsiaIntFocus Jan 2003
Korean Monarch Kim Jong Il: Technocrat Ruler of the Hermit Kingdom Facing the Challenge of Modernity (Alexandre Y. Mansourov) Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies 2003
Impressions of a week in North Korea (Stephen Endicott) CanKor Dec 2002
North Korea in the vice (Gavan McCormack) NewLeftReview Nov-Dec 2002
Letter from Pyongyang (anonymous) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Jul-Aug 2002
Overcoming Humanitarian Dilemmas in the DPRK (Hazel Smith) USIP Jul 2002
How to Finance North Korea's Capital Requirements for Economic Recovery (Deok Ryong Yoon and Bradley O. Babson) Oct 2001
Economic Consequences of Rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula (Deok Ryong Yoon) KIIEP Jun 2001
The Politics of Famine in North Korea (Andrew Natsios) USIP Aug 1999

Reference DPRK map produced by the UN [pdf]

Simple reference map of DPRK

HDRC Map Centre

A recent NASA satellite picture of Korea by night clearly shows the energy shortage in the North

Satellite images of Pyongyang and DPRK

Visit DPRK with Koryo Tours
specialised tour agency
DPRK and Pyongyang photo galleries

Belgian veterans at the armistice anniversary celebrations in South Korea July 2003

Pyongyang
streetmap-photos-metro
Chris Springer's book:
The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital

Pyongyang
comic book (in French) by Guy Delisle about his experience as supervisor of an animation project at the SEK studio in Pyongyang (published by L'Association, 2003)

Arthur Paone' book: Liberating Korea investigates the deliberate US destruction of the Korean peninsula during the Korean War.

World Travel and Tourism online offers an extensive list of DPRK contacts

Anti-US propaganda posters

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