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Greetings again from North Korean Review. We would like to wish all our readers a safe, healthy, and happy 2022. The end of 2021 and beginning of 2022 have seen numerous missile tests on the part of North Korea, reminding us of the perennial issue the regime in North Korea and its weapons development present to the international community. There has also been activity at the DPRK/China border which means the Kim regime may be emerging from its COVID-19 hibernation. Whatever the case, we at NKR are dedicated to the understanding of the economic, political, and social situation north of the 38th parallel and publishing research that lends itself to such understanding policy. As part of this NKR is proud to offer our Spring 2022 issue.
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For our second article, Madelynn Einhorn and Timothy S. Rich argue that, despite decades of research suggesting South Korean public support for unification, changing conceptions of what constitutes the nation along with limited public interest may have shifted unification support. Einhorn and Rich find not only greater support for peaceful coexistence, but also disaggregate the role of ethnic pride and ethnic conceptualizations of the nation on both unification and peaceful coexistence sentiments. [...]frequency of thinking about North Korea has little influence on perceptions of either outcome. Rowley finds that North Korean diplomacy towards socialist states is more adaptive than might be expected, shaped not by one definitive influence but instead positioned at the confluence of distinctive ideological goals and more conventional realist objectives of state survival.