Benjamin R. Young
@dubstepindprk.bsky.social
North Korea analyst, prof of security studies & researcher of dictatorships. Wrote a book in 2021 on 🇰🇵-3rd World ties. Most importantly: dad & husband. Views my own.
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Very preliminary look at my next book cover. Entitled “Reds, Revolutions and Rebellions: How China, Cuba, and Vietnam Transformed Guerilla Warfare,” it is scheduled to come out in summer 2026 with Cornell University Press.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Very preliminary look at my next book cover. Entitled “Reds, Revolutions and Rebellions: How China, Cuba, and Vietnam Transformed Guerilla Warfare,” it is scheduled to come out in summer 2026 with Cornell University Press.
Famous Putinist sycophant Russian Singer, Shaman, meeting Kim Jong Un after his recent concert in North Korea. This renewed Russo-DPRK alliance is going to outlive the end of the Ukraine war. Military, diplomatic, and socio-cultural channels have all been strengthened.
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Famous Putinist sycophant Russian Singer, Shaman, meeting Kim Jong Un after his recent concert in North Korea. This renewed Russo-DPRK alliance is going to outlive the end of the Ukraine war. Military, diplomatic, and socio-cultural channels have all been strengthened.
2025 calendar from the Russian FSB veterans charity. I have so many questions
Found at propagandopolis
Found at propagandopolis
December 18, 2024 at 5:12 AM
2025 calendar from the Russian FSB veterans charity. I have so many questions
Found at propagandopolis
Found at propagandopolis
Changed my background picture to this hilarious ad page in the Washington Post from the 1970s (I think) that featured North Korean propaganda alongside sofa and clothes tailoring ads. During the Cold War era, Pyongyang regularly paid to place expensive ads in Western newspapers
December 15, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Changed my background picture to this hilarious ad page in the Washington Post from the 1970s (I think) that featured North Korean propaganda alongside sofa and clothes tailoring ads. During the Cold War era, Pyongyang regularly paid to place expensive ads in Western newspapers
lol, not exactly a hopeful message. But then again Seoul’s tourism bureau are the ones that came out with the weirdo “I Seoul you” slogan a few years ago.
December 11, 2024 at 2:10 PM
lol, not exactly a hopeful message. But then again Seoul’s tourism bureau are the ones that came out with the weirdo “I Seoul you” slogan a few years ago.