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Jackson Five Ri-dux: More Sol-ju in the South Korean Media
Kim Yoo-kyung, mistakenly identified as Ri Sol-ju’s sister, performing at the Moranbong 2013 New Year’s Performance. | image via Chosun Central TV On March 8, Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Korean-language...
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Moranbong Band: Joseon Style Electronic Music on a New Level
Could the Moranbong Band’s first concert last July, replete with the sounds of American film, demonstrate its potential to depart to foreign shores? | Image via KRCNR Nearly nine months after the fact,...
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Packaged and Controlled by the Masculine State: Moranbong Band and Gender in...
After an absence of nearly four months, the Moranbong Band recently returned to the national stage, doing so in a way that assured North Korean conservatives that the girls could have a salutary effect...
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A Soupçon of Anger: KCNA-China File No. 23
A little bilateral discord, alleviated over Moranbong chords: Kim Jong-un meets Ambassador Liu Hongcai. | Photo courtesy PRC Embassy in the DPRK, January 1, 2013 China and North Korea are often at...
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Yongusil 15: Moranbong in Michigan–Sherri L.Ter Molen at the Midwest...
Michigan State University’s Kellogg Center, venue for the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs | Image: Michigan State University Since Sherri L. Ter Molen published an intriguing analysis of North...
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Rock Gospels: Analyzing the Artistic Style of Moranbong Band
Kang Ryong-hui rocking with her guitar in a female version of the Kim Jong-un hairstyle | Image: Moranbong Band concert 25 April 2013/Youtube. The Moranbong Band hasn’t publicly performed since last...
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Kim Ki-nam: North Korea’s Orchestral Politics
The Moranbong Band taking careful note at a recent Workers’ Party conference on the arts. | Image: Korean Central TV By and large, centralized autocratic dictatorships do not reward inventiveness and...
View ArticleYongusil 56: Building Domain Consensus Through Narrative
Britain’s Magna Carta between King John and the unruly, aspirational group of aristocratic nobles behind the Barons War of 1215-1217, Hobbes’ Leviathan and Rousseau’s Principles of Political Right are...
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Yongusil 62: Contentious Politics on the Korean Peninsula, a Workshop at the...
The contentious struggle on the peninsula. | Image: Pedrosimones7 The developmental trajectories of North and South Korea have shaped the contours of each country’s contentious political environment....
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Purges, Baekdu, and the Moranbong Band: Data Points around General Hyon
Kim Jong-un voices off during military exercises in spring 2014. | Image: Chosun Central Television Given the pleasant security and relatively “civilized” nature of power transition in democratic...
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