Rob York
@rjamesyork.bsky.social
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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On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston
November 9, 2024 at 10:41 PM
On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston
“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.
lnkd.in/e-RqC6Vh
lnkd.in/e-RqC6Vh
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“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.
lnkd.in/e-RqC6Vh
lnkd.in/e-RqC6Vh
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The new issue--38.1--of JOEAA is online! With articles from Hon-min Yau, Rob York (@rjamesyork.bsky.social), Satoshi Machida, Leif-Eric Easley, and Sofiya Sayankina.
All articles are Open Access.
www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati...
#BigIdeasForEastAsia
All articles are Open Access.
www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati...
#BigIdeasForEastAsia
Institute for National Security Strategy
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November 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The new issue--38.1--of JOEAA is online! With articles from Hon-min Yau, Rob York (@rjamesyork.bsky.social), Satoshi Machida, Leif-Eric Easley, and Sofiya Sayankina.
All articles are Open Access.
www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati...
#BigIdeasForEastAsia
All articles are Open Access.
www.inss.re.kr/en/publicati...
#BigIdeasForEastAsia
I must say: BlueSky is a much more fun place to be when Democrats are winning.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I must say: BlueSky is a much more fun place to be when Democrats are winning.
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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...
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
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.
www.reuters.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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...
www.reuters.com/world/chines...
Maybe the court decision was delayed so they could be more thorough. Because I read it and ... yeah. They disassembled Yoon.
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Maybe the court decision was delayed so they could be more thorough. Because I read it and ... yeah. They disassembled Yoon.
Lee Jae-myung's presidency is going to be bitter medicine but sometimes that's necessary.
April 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Lee Jae-myung's presidency is going to be bitter medicine but sometimes that's necessary.
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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/...
There will be a presidential election in 60 days, on June 3.
Source: n.news.naver.com/article/366/...
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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/...
There will be a presidential election in 60 days, on June 3.
Source: n.news.naver.com/article/366/...
South Korea will be focal point of liberal American envy for the foreseeable future.
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
South Korea will be focal point of liberal American envy for the foreseeable future.
Damn.
There are reports that Yoon Suk-yeol's portraits are being taken down and burned across military bases in South Korea.
April 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Damn.
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.
April 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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.
8-0. Coups are, in fact, illegal.
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
8-0. Coups are, in fact, illegal.
Congrats President Lee Jae-myung, I guess.
April 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Congrats President Lee Jae-myung, I guess.
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Given the lead in comments from the Chief Justice, seems increasingly likely that Yoon impeachment will be upheld.
April 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Given the lead in comments from the Chief Justice, seems increasingly likely that Yoon impeachment will be upheld.
Sure sounds like Yoon is screwed.
"Yoon's exercise of emergency powers cannot be justified."
April 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Sure sounds like Yoon is screwed.
With everything that's already happening, we're just waiting for the #ConstitutionalCourt of #Korea to tell us whether a #coup is actually illegal.
April 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
With everything that's already happening, we're just waiting for the #ConstitutionalCourt of #Korea to tell us whether a #coup is actually illegal.
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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”
April 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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”
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.
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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.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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...
brmyers.substack.com/p/kim-jong-i...
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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
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
April 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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
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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“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.
a fine @cartoonshateher.bsky.social piece as ever, and I'm going to make a tenuous argument that the filming of U.S. 'reality' shows *and* the sitcoms based on them played a big role in convincing people to take obviously staged footage as real.
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Context: This Person Literally Set Up a Phone to Film This
All online video content needs to be viewed with an important realization: it wasn't filmed by accident.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“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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With Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, the “5 eyes” agreement will get a 6th eye.
January 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
With Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, the “5 eyes” agreement will get a 6th eye.
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“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.”
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.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“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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January 31, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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