Digital Methods and North Korean History

Seventy years have passed since Kim Il Sung's triumphant return to North Korea, but the history of the country remains as elusive and contentious as ever. This project seeks to shed new light on the foundational period of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea using digital methods. The focus is on an archive of North Korean military newspapers from July 1948 to July 1950: what insights can this newspaper read through digital tools give us about the nature of the North Korean regime and its preparation for the Korean War?