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Mar 28, 2018
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Dec 26, 2017
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Sep 3, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Mar 16, 2017
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson embarked on his first diplomatic trip to Asia this week,...
Feb 17, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Jul 5, 2014
President Xi Jinping arrived in South Korea on Thursday for a state visit that is seen as...
May 6, 2014
China’s Foreign Ministry dismissed purportedly leaked PLA plans for dealing with regime collapse...
May 5, 2014
Purported PLA plans for handling a collapse of the North Korean regime have leaked to Japan’s...
Feb 16, 2014
On Saturday, Secretary of State John Kerry completed a two-day visit to China, where North Korea...
Sep 21, 2013
A new study by American research institute Rand Corp urges the United States to negotiate a...
May 24, 2013
During this week’s visit to Beijing by a high-level North Korean envoy, President Xi Jinping reportedly urged North Korea to return to six-party talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. From the New York Times: In...
May 22, 2013
North Korea has sent a high-level envoy to Beijing in an apparent effort to patch up tense relations as international pressure mounts over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. From the New York Times: The envoy, Vice Marshal...
Apr 14, 2013
John Kerry concluded his first visit to China since being sworn in as Secretary of State. The Chinese official media offered a skeptical welcome to Kerry, while openly criticizing his predecessor, Hillary Clinton, for her strong...
Apr 2, 2013
The editor of a prominent Party journal has been suspended because of an op-ed he wrote for The Financial Times following Pyongyang’s defiant third nuclear test in February. From Jane Perlez at The New York Times: The...
Feb 28, 2013
After North Korea’s February 12 nuclear test, condemnation of the blast rained in from both China’s government and the general public. Netizens voiced anxiety that irradiated fallout from the blast might travel...
Feb 17, 2013
According to Reuters, North Korea has told China that it is prepared to stage one or two more nuclear tests this year. This information emerged after China’s condemnation of North Korea’s underground nuclear tests....
Feb 12, 2013
Following North Korea’s third nuclear test, John Garnaut of the Age writes that if people in the West are expecting China to take a strong stand against the development of Pyongyang’s nuclear program, they will be...
Feb 12, 2013
North Korea detonated a third nuclear weapon in an underground test on Tuesday, defying Chinese calls for restraint and bringing swift condemnation from the U.N. and national governments. From Justin McCurry and Tania Branigan...