Reconsidering North Korea

In this special issue, contributors explore how we can best try to understand North Korea using humanistic and social scientific perspectives. By focusing on specific topics in North Korean history, politics, literature, and society, the authors ask how different kinds of evidence, source materials, and theoretical approaches help shed light on a country that is difficult to do extensive field research in or even to visit. Topics include the intersection of South Korean texts in early–Cold War North Korean publications, different ways of reading North Korean literature, Chinese memoirs and the lived experience of war in North Korea, and the architecture of multiplicity in postwar Pyongyang.

Contributors: Gregg A. Brazinsky, Mark E. Caprio, Hye Eun Choi, Kelly Jeong, I Jonathan Kief, Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Kyungmi Kim, Nuri Kim, Youme Kim, Kim Minsun, James F. Person, Sonia Ryang, Andre Schmid, Jay Song