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Virtual exchanges with the DPRK are entirely feasible, says Singapore-based organization SHARE Image: NK News (file photo) | North Koreans use computers in Pyongyang, Jan. 9, 2018 People in North Korea successfully connected with the outside world through a series of video conference seminars in recent weeks, the Singapore-based non-profit Choson Exchange said on Thursday, amid hopes that similar technology could be used to facilitate international diplomacy with the DPRK in future. Choson Exchange says it hosted two real-time online video seminars with DPRK-based participants as part of a si...

Posted on Throughout East Asian history, Japan has worked hard to gain its power over the Asian continent for centuries. Granted, East Asian history has spanned thousands of years, with power shifts between many different parties. However, the last villain has been Japan. During World War II, Japan forced many women into sexual slavery, including those from Choson (the last dynasty in the Korean peninsula), China, Russia, Mongolia, and even Europeans like the Dutch, to fund its imperialist military. Japan has taken many artifacts from various cultures it invaded during this time as well. ...

Author Bio Par Kristoffer Cassel is an assistant professor of modern history at the University of Michigan. He is committed to multilingual and multiarchival research and is especially interested in historical problems where international relations, jurisprudence, institutional history and linguistics intersect. His recent publications also include a chapter on Japanese representations of the first Ming Emperor in the edited volume Long Live the Emperor and an article on the nature of Swedish extraterritoriality in China during the 19th century, published in the journal Historisk tidskrift....

Why It’s Not So Easy to Make a Phone Call in North Korea Despite some modernization efforts, North Korean infrastructure is still old and there are tight political controls on communications. Much as North Korea has made attempts in recent years to modernize its communications infrastructure, the act of making a phone call in that country is much harder than it is in most places, according to a report this week. NKNews reported this week that while North Korea has a landline system that accepts calls from just about everywhere in the world, it’s incredibly difficult to call anyone’s pho...

Advertisement What is the current state of entrepreneurship, business activity, and economic reform in North Korea? For a perspective on these matters, Jongsoo Lee interviews Geoffrey See, founder of the Singapore-based Choson Exchange, who serves on the Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula at the World Economic Forum. Your website states: “Choson Exchange supports entrepreneurs and business-minded individuals in North Korea through workshops, internships, mentorships and scholarships inside and outside of the DPRK.” From your experiences in training and working with North Korean...