Rob York
@rjamesyork.bsky.social
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Think tanker, Korean history PhD, shill for Big Competency and purveyor of snark.
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“Besieged by Imperialists”: North Korea’s State Media in English, 1998-2003," an article I've worked on off and on for more years than I care to remember, is now up at the Journal of East Asian Affairs.
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Prufrock451
about 1 year ago
On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston
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“Besieged by Imperialists”: North Korea’s State Media in English, 1998-2003," an article I've worked on off and on for more years than I care to remember, is now up at the Journal of East Asian Affairs.
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5 days ago
The new issue--38.1--of JOEAA is online! With articles from Hon-min Yau, Rob York (
@rjamesyork.bsky.social
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www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati...
#BigIdeasForEastAsia
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Institute for National Security Strategy
https://www.inss.re.kr/en/publications/bbs/joeaa_en_list.do
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I must say: BlueSky is a much more fun place to be when Democrats are winning.
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Kevin Rothrock
7 months ago
Chinese military officers have been in the theater behind Russia's combat lines "with Beijing's approval to draw tactical lessons from the war," reports Reuters. Pales in comparison to U.S. military coordination with Kyiv, but still a strand in the war's wider web.
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
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Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are mercenaries-US officials
More than one hundred Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military against Ukraine are mercenaries who do not appear to have a direct link to China's government, two U.S. officials familiar with American intelligence and a former Western intelligence official said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/chinese-nationals-fighting-russia-ukraine-are-mercenaries-us-officials-2025-04-11/
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Maybe the court decision was delayed so they could be more thorough. Because I read it and ... yeah. They disassembled Yoon.
7 months ago
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Lee Jae-myung's presidency is going to be bitter medicine but sometimes that's necessary.
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Andy Lim
7 months ago
Quick translated version of Constitutional Court's decision to uphold President Yoon's impeachment today. There will be a presidential election in 60 days, on June 3. Source:
n.news.naver.com/article/366/...
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South Korea will be focal point of liberal American envy for the foreseeable future.
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Yoon Suk Yeol is officially an ex-president and now an election must take place – one that will likely result in Lee Jae-myung succeeding him.
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8-0. Coups are, in fact, illegal.
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Congrats President Lee Jae-myung, I guess.
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Karl Friedhoff
7 months ago
Given the lead in comments from the Chief Justice, seems increasingly likely that Yoon impeachment will be upheld.
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Sure sounds like Yoon is screwed.
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With everything that's already happening, we're just waiting for the
#ConstitutionalCourt
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#Korea
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#coup
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The Nucky Thompson of Going on My Phone
7 months ago
Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”
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With all that's going on in the world, BR Myers is doing vlogs about how "woke" college students in the West have an inferior grasp of classical literature and proper English to the North Korean leadership. Let me know if and when he discovers the plot again.
brmyers.substack.com/p/kim-jong-i...
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Sthele Press Newsletter | Substack
Discussion of North and South Korean political culture. Reflections on propaganda in general; we're all North Koreans. Click to read Sthele Press Newsletter, a Substack publication.
https://brmyers.substack.com/p/kim-jong-il-and-the-decameron?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=372176&post_id=160473967&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=zwjl&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Anna Bower
7 months ago
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
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BeijingPalmer
7 months ago
“Media studies” was an endlessly mocked class in the UK press when I was a teenager, and it turns out probably the most vital class you could take.
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Not a great time for leadership uncertainty.
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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South Korea's acting president calls for talks with US over tariffs
South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo called on Thursday for talks with U.S. officials to shield the export-reliant economy from the impact of U.S. tariffs and ordered emergency support measures for businesses.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-acting-president-orders-emergency-measures-over-us-tariffs-2025-04-02/
7 months ago
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Darth Putin
10 months ago
With Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, the “5 eyes” agreement will get a 6th eye.
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New York Times Opinion
10 months ago
“The surge of people trying to reach Europe, the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia has set off a broad panic, reshaping the political landscape,” the columnist
@polgreen.bsky.social
writes. “Yet despite migration’s centrality to our politics and our world, nobody really understands it.”
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Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/opinion/trump-migration-world.html?smid=bsky-nytopinion
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10 months ago
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I wonder how much of this is because the 민주당 wasn't content to impeach Yoon and demanded the head of Han Duck-soo. Either way, I would still favor Lee Jae-myung if an election against Oh Se-hoon took place tomorrow but it won't be an overwhelming mandate.
www.koreaherald.com/article/1038...
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Ruling party rebounds: Support ratings surge back to precrisis levels
Recent polls showed support ratings for the ruling party have recovered to what they were before martial law, with one indicating that the party has narrowed the gap with the main opposition party to ...
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10389050
10 months ago
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Wrote this Sunday night, which honestly feels like weeks ago.
www.scmp.com/opinion/worl...
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Opinion | The hidden danger of Trump’s tough trade tactics
Trump’s tariff threats to bully countries into helping achieve his political goals may create a backlash like the one that propelled him to power.
https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3296488/trumps-tough-trade-tactics-risk-turning-world-away-america
10 months ago
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It's *exactly* what the CCP has imposed on Hong Kong.
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10 months ago
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The Lost Comms 🇳🇴 🇪🇺
10 months ago
DeepSeek is much worse than TikTok If you are tempted to give your information to China, now is your chance.
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norman emailer
10 months ago
John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.
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The president of Colombia. Donald Trump’s trade policy is a boon to every anti-globalist outside the US who ever bemoaned their country’s overreliance on American goods, and I don’t think the “nationalists” around him understand how much benefit the US derived from that reliance.
10 months ago
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JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh)
over 1 year ago
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “lmao" said Gandalf, “well it has.”
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I’ve been in Australia for the past week, meeting (among others) former PM Morrison. That said, the trip could’ve used more marsupials.
10 months ago
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It is, indeed, going to be a long four years.
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www.nknews.org/2025/01/joe-...
In
@nknewsorg.bsky.social
today.
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Joe Biden’s legacy on North Korea is a whole lot of nothing | NK News
Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Rob York, director for regional affairs at the Pacific Forum. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do no...
https://www.nknews.org/2025/01/joe-bidens-legacy-on-north-korea-is-a-whole-lot-of-nothing/?share=59b76d7c
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Oh great.
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The Party of Restraint
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New BlueSky followers today. I’m sure they all have great personalities.
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No thanks.
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10 months ago
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Mueller, She Wrote
10 months ago
We can talk about his face in a minute, but check out that chyron.
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Before you give the staffers a hard time keep in mind there wasn’t a real justification that would’ve sounded any better.
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www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversa...
On Hawaii Public Radio talking about recent developments in Korea.
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Pacific Forum talks uncertain political times in South Korea
South Korea is still in a week of mourning because of the plane crash that killed close to 200 people. Its finance minister is now the acting president dealing with the tragedy. The Conversation talke...
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2025-01-03/pacific-forum-talks-uncertain-political-times-in-south-korea
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Mark Copelovitch
10 months ago
The very first thing Biden should have done was abolish all the bad Trump tariffs on our allies (& re-entered TPP) The (almost) very last thing he should have done is not do this very dumb CFIUS thing He got awful economic & geopolitical advice. I’ll never understand it.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Looking at our recent presidents is enough to establish a causal link between protectionism and cognitive decline.
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Rejecting the Nippon Steel bid is a slap in the face to Japan
Nippon Steel has not given up and continues to lobby U.S. officials and steelworkers, arguing the deal would grow U.S. Steel, protect jobs, and strengthen the industry.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2024/12/27/rejecting-the-nippon-steel/?fbclid=iwy2xjawhle4jlehrua2flbqixmqabhzgrhrp0xw6noghnrtbkskz0woley6qcxhyi82_hpvprpphv15se2td-gg_aem_geseoms1qygps2h3poix7q
10 months ago
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Julian Sanchez
11 months ago
Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!
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Chip Roy says Mike Johnson doesn't have the votes. They *really* want to do this again?
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www.staradvertiser.com/2024/12/30/h...
But York said that while South Korea’s progressives tend to pursue a softer touch with the North, changes usually aren’t immediate, and they tend to maintain a confrontational stance — at least until back-channel talks deescalate tensions.
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S. Korea upheaval may have a ripple reaction in Hawaii | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The political fallout of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law in his country, quick reversal and subsequent impeachment has sent ripples across the Pacific.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2024/12/30/hawaii-news/s-korea-upheaval-may-have-a-ripple-reaction-in-hawaii/
11 months ago
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William Gallo
11 months ago
However, this editorial in the conservative Chosun Ilbo argues that Yoon has "no legal means" to prevent the enforcement of the arrest warrant. Blocking the Yoon arrest warrant "would itself violate the law and could lead to physical confrontation," it says.
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Editorial: President Yoon can no longer evade legal accountability
Editorial: President Yoon can no longer evade legal accountability
https://www.chosun.com/english/opinion-en/2024/12/31/XJZFGVKNWBHU5DCCMPG77MUTDY/
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