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positions (2020) 28 (3): 631–657.
Published: 01 August 2020
...-down, often paternalistic measures, such policies were carried out ostensibly to elevate women’s status as a form of state feminism professing equality for the sexes. Comparing North Korea with China, this article explores how communist feminisms attempted to tackle the dilemma of sexual difference...
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positions (1995) 3 (3): 695–722.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Charles K. Armstrong Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Surveillance and Punishment in Postliberation North Korea
Charles K. Armstrong
Michel Foucault’s archaeology of power and surveillance in the modern
West...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 809–836.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Cheehyung Harrison Kim In the early 1960s, the synthetic fiber vinalon became North Korea's national fiber, a product that symbolized the independence and ingenuity of its state-led socialism, from the raw materials needed to make it (the abundant coal and limestone) to the person who invented...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 743–784.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Christine Hong Reading North Korean defector memoirs and Korean American “roots” narratives as forms of “second culture” relative to North Korea, namely, an alternative US-oriented culture whose representational authority is held as exceeding that of the socialist state of origin, this essay...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Suk-Young Kim North Korea is a fashion-conscious nation where political leaders are preoccupied with how to dress the nation's people through rigid social practices, such as imposing military-style uniforms to various social sectors and systematically recommending certain designs to civilians...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 729–742.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Bruce Cumings This essay examines the destructive air war over North Korea from 1950 to 1953 and asks why this enormous atrocity is either unknown or forgotten in the United States, while it remains a burning memory in North Korea—one that deeply affects Korean attitudes toward US citizens...
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positions (2023) 31 (1): 67–89.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Hyunshik Ju Abstract Two stage plays written after 2010 about North Korean defectors in South Korea are dealt with in this article, Mokran Eonni ( Sister Mokran ) and Toillit Pipeul ( Toilet People ). This article employs an analytical framework that weaves the terms of the immigrant...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 837–849.
Published: 01 November 2015
... violence—committed by US forces, the South Korean police, military, and right-wing groups, as well as by leftist guerillas and the Korean People's Army—offer unique insight into what he calls the war politics that established and consolidated North and South Korea. Rather than ending the war, the armistice...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 815–838.
Published: 01 November 2022
...” or refugees. I argue that the boy's death is a sacrifice suggested to audiences by the director in an attempt to preserve the communitarian ethics of Korean Chinese and maintain the value of ethnic identity. 3 In South Korea, not all North Korean migrants can achieve citizenship. The South Korean law...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 633–663.
Published: 01 November 2015
... “Vision 3000,” which would provide
aid to North Korea contingent upon two conditions unacceptable to the
North Korean regime, namely immediate denuclearization and “opening,”
it piled up one roadkill after another in its haste, from the cessation...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 109–131.
Published: 01 February 2011
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Set during 1948 – 53, the period of formation of separate regimes in north
and south Korea and the subsequent Korean War, The Square produces a
universalist subject informed by the late 1950s call by many south Korean
intellectuals...
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in From Immigrants to Refugees: Relocating Strangers in Two Plays about North Korean Defectors
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 February 2023
Figure 1 The three Hangyeols ( left ) relate to Ju-young ( right ) that they escaped from North Korea by sailing on toilet boats. Photograph courtesy of Jageun Sinhwa Theatre Company.
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 192–223.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Roy Richard Grinker Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Mourning the Nation: Ruins of the North in Seoul
Roy Richard Grinker
This essay focuses on south Korea, one half of a “postcolonial” community,
by which I mean a community...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 597–617.
Published: 01 November 2015
...,
North Korea, and the United States on July 27, 1953, peace did not ensue
on the Korean peninsula. Notwithstanding the agreement’s recommen-
dation that all three parties return to the negotiating table within ninety
days to settle the peace...
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positions (1993) 1 (2): 450–485.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., it has become almost commonsensical for historians in the United
States and South Korea to treat North Korea as an entirely separate and
distinct unit. Trained under the grip of the Cold War, most professional
historians were unable or unwilling...
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 157–167.
Published: 01 February 2005
... own benefit as a primary aim cannot but threaten other nations. North
Korea’s decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
is only one of the consequences of the Iraq War. Korea is a relatively small
and weak nation whose modern...
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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: Troops Stationed in Japan, South Korea, and Beyond .” Newsweek , April 26 . www.newsweek.com/us-military-japan-north-korea-asia-590278 . Shen Lucinda . 2018 . “ Here’s Who Isn’t Winning from Denuclearization Talks and Friendlier North Korea–South Korea Relations .” Fortune , April 27...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 701–727.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of divided Korea. Nonetheless, the webtoon ultimately leaves the survival of North Korean others beyond the realm of the visible because their ordinary coexistence in the South is yet to be imagined. Redrawing the Division Lines? Surplus, Connectivity, and Remediation in the South Korean Webtoon Secretly...
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positions (1996) 4 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 February 1996
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activist Im Su-gyijng had surreptitiously left for North Korea to attend the
World Festival of Youth and Students, Chijn Moon-hwan, a student leader
who helped plan Im’s journey, wrote:
Jager I Making Family History...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 785–806.
Published: 01 November 2015
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of people both north and south of the 38th parallel. Since the formation of
North and South Korea as inimical states, both sides have witnessed massive
ideological campaigns. Within this ideologically driven context, cinema has
performed...
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