May 2013 Photo Essay: HNC in North Korea
Here’s a sneak peek of our upcoming May issue! In early April, a group of students and a professor from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center visited North Korea. They left Beijing April 9th and returned April 16th. Below are photos from behind the wall, courtesy of Hopkins-Nanjing Center student Natalie Sammarco.
(Read more about Natalie’s experiences in China and North Korea on the Hopkins-Nanjing Center Admissions Blog.)
Colonel Kim at a watchtower along the border of North and South Korea. Much of the land in the background is a minefield located in the Demilitarized Zone.
This North Korean water bottling plant uses recycled materials, so not all the bottles are the same.
Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il on the National Holiday (Kim Il-sung’s birthday, April 15th).
Statues of soldiers near the statues of the leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.
The “Tower of Juche Idea,” which represents Korean nationalism and self-reliance, looks over the River Taedong.
Natalie Sammarco poses at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
More Stories
A Talk on The Politics of Food Security: Is Food a Human Right?
Ishani Srivastava Edited by Alexandra Huggins On April 24, 2023, visiting professor Michelle Jurkovich hosted a discussion titled “Is Food...
Smoke and Mirrors: COP27 and The Agreement on Loss and Damage Funding
Ishani Srivastava Edited by David Forner At the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention...
An Interview With Laurel Buck: MAIR Student, Policy Nerd, and Steadfast Center Back
Stuart Grosvenor Laurel Buck, a second-year MAIR student and #12 on the Johns Hopkins Women's Soccer team, spoke to us...
Professor Adam Szubin’s “Yachts & Sanctions”
Hans Faye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPbEUxqL4Q Professor Adam Szubin is no stranger to sanctions. Though he currently serves as a Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at...
Battling Gender-based Violence in Contemporary China
Haoning (Zoe) Guo In the historian Jonathan D. Spence’s magnificent work The Death of Woman Wang, the woman known only...
Chinese Censorship: To Shanghai and Beyond
The author is a recent graduate of SAIS who has requested to stay anonymous. Forbidden to leave their houses, 26...
Average Rating