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Shinyoung Kwon: Authoritarian roots of North Korea’s neighborhood associations

Shinyoung Kwon: Authoritarian roots of North Korea’s neighborhood associations

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Dr. Shinyong Kwon joins this week’s episode to discuss how neighborhood associations — known today as inminban in the DPRK — have been used as tools of governance, social indoctrination and moral authority. She explains how these associations originated from East Asian communal traditions but were reshaped under Japanese colonial rule to serve wartime mobilization […]

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