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@LizEconomy and @BonnieGlaser to advise a group of Lords today re: "The UK’s security and trade relationship with China."
Int'l Relations & Defence Committee open session starts at 2 p.m. BST / 9 a.m. EST.
https://t.co/WB81BZqRg1
Wang Yi image credit: @CWilson_FCDO
Here is Karlsson's take on North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung. Since 2009, his work (Karlsson's, not Kim's) has housed in a center for political art (EWK - Centrum för politisk illustrationskonst) in the former industrial city of Norrköping. @benjaminkatzeff
Orang (어랑, DPRK North Hamgyong province) is a long way from Pyongyang, somewhere between Chongjin and Kim Chaek, and not all that far from China. Here is some mostly non-mechanised local ingenuity for rebuilding a bridge flooded out last month.
An extensive Canadian history of naval operations off the North Korean coast, includes plenty of insertion/pick-up of anti-communist partisans into Hwanghae province and a scene of Chinese troops displacing KPA on coastal defences in Nov. 1951. https://t.co/fEhACqxfkI (pdf)
LEE Im Ha “The Korean War & the Role of Women,” _Review of Korean Studies_ (2006) https://t.co/5mMP2611as (link opens as pdf) h/t @RachelMinhee. Includes discussion of South Korean women acting as interpreters at US/UN interrogations of captured NKorean women. pic: M Bourke-White
What Happened at No Gun Ri ?: The Challenge of Civilians on the Battlefield (M.A. thesis at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2003) https://t.co/DF5t2C1Kqv (pdf) @Sino_NK Image via Australian War Memorial https://t.co/t0YMOGzWmU
@ChuBailiang ends with quite the image, the malicious foreigner scampering off to the airport to avoid prosecution cc @bickers
Scrum at Seoul Station, where North Korean arts envoy arrives on a bus from the DMZ, having been delayed a couple of days for reasons unknown. https://t.co/Gw6MOFyRYQ