North Koreans Quietly Open to International Broadcasts
For well more than a decade, Korea experts who specialize in international media have been examining the impact of foreign broadcasts and DVDs on users in North Korea. They have done so through a...
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Quotable: Andrew Natsios on North Korea and the Digital Age
Andrew Natsios, Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University (and former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development), spoke at the...
View ArticleQuotable: North Korean Art
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea, Jang Jing-sung, “a former North Korean propaganda poet,” spoke at the Institute of World Politics in Washington on February 4, 2015. His...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy and the Gathering Storms
Public Diplomacy and the Gathering Storms Donald M. Bishop Sir Winston Churchill, looking back at Europe in the 1930s, wrote of “the gathering storm.” In our time, there’s not one storm gathering, but...
View ArticleQuotable: John David on “Taking the Offensive”
To think offense – and for concepts “outside the box” – call a Marine. “In an information wilderness in which massive battles of ideas are raging and ideas are used as weapons, a defensive strategy is...
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Quotable: Greg Scarlatoiu on North Korea’s deceptions
hrnk.org On October 9, 2015, Greg Scarlatoiu, the executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, posted a report, “Muddying the Waters: North Korea’s Deceptive Media Offensive,”...
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Classic Quotable: Stephen Vincent Benet on North Korean hatreds
News Item (AP, 25 Jun 2015) -- June is something like Hate America Month in North Korea.Officially, it’s called “Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month” and — more so than usual — it’s a time for...
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Quotable: Mina Yoon on the staying power of North Korea’s narrative
“Mina Yoon” is a North Korean who escaped and now lives in Seoul. She answers questions about North Korea in a blog on the nknews.org website. A reader asked, “Who do North Koreans think started the...
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Quotable: Michael Rubin on sports diplomacy
aei.org News of a hockey tournament with retired NHL players slated for March in Pyongyang – “a charity event to raise money for sports equipment for disabled North Korean athletes” -- prompted...
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Quotable: Nicholas Eberstadt on North Korea’s ideology
aei.org “The North Korean regime depends upon isolation from the outside world to maintain its grip and pursue its international objectives. The regime is deadly afraid of what it terms 'ideological...
View ArticleQuotable: Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech
In Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech at the National Press Club on April 26, 2016, the candidate said “Our foreign policy is a complete and total disaster. No vision. No purpose. No direction. No...
View ArticleQuotable: Philip Seib on “collaborative public diplomacy"
“Although the North Korea conundrum may, unfortunately, require hard power, relying on soft power is the most logical approach to dealing with China and overcoming intraregional rivalries that affect...
View ArticleQuotable: Stavridis, Rokke, and Pierce on Sony, Huntington, and integrating...
Soft power. Non-kinetic effects. Nonstate international actors. Another example of the intellectual ferment among armed forces thinkers was recently provided by three leading retired officers – James...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy: Seen on the Web (VI)
These are abbreviated references to articles "seen on the web" relating to public affairs, Public Diplomacy, international broadcasting, and information operations, provided in this format to allow...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy: Seen on the Web (viii)
These are abbreviated references to articles "seen on the web" relating to public affairs, Public Diplomacy, international broadcasting, and information operations, provided in this format to allow...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy: "Seen on the Web" (x)
These are abbreviated references to articles "seen on the web" relating to public affairs, Public Diplomacy, international broadcasting, and information operations, provided in this format to allow...
View ArticleQuotable: James Van de Velde on cyber forms of warfare
This must-read article discussed new shapes of warfare and international competition that avoid kinetic “war” as Americans usually conceive it. The author reviewed Russia’s “hybrid warfare strategy,”...
View ArticleQuotable: Public Diplomacy in Secretary Kerry’s “Cabinet Exit Memo”
"‘The United States is more secure, more respected, and more engaged in the world than we were when President Obama took office eight years ago. We have brought the international community together to...
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