John Delury
@johndelury.bsky.social
Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Thanks for the shout out!
October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thanks for the shout out!
very kind of you to say... glad you enjoyed it!
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
very kind of you to say... glad you enjoyed it!
Hard not to see the timing of this announcement in light of South Korean president visiting Tokyo en route to White House and embracing trilateral US-Japan-ROK cooperation
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hard not to see the timing of this announcement in light of South Korean president visiting Tokyo en route to White House and embracing trilateral US-Japan-ROK cooperation
Beijing had been trying to get ROK president Lee Jae-myung to attend. I've been arguing he should go, getting lots of pushback to that idea in my discussion in Seoul. He might regret he didn't say yes. Too late?
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Beijing had been trying to get ROK president Lee Jae-myung to attend. I've been arguing he should go, getting lots of pushback to that idea in my discussion in Seoul. He might regret he didn't say yes. Too late?
Kim's attendance was not a widely expected development. It's his first visit to China since a flurry of four trips in 2018-19. First meeting in person with Xi since Xi's brief visit to Pyongyang in June 2019.
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/o...
Opinion | Why Xi Jinping Is Courting Kim Jong-un (Published 2019)
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Kim's attendance was not a widely expected development. It's his first visit to China since a flurry of four trips in 2018-19. First meeting in person with Xi since Xi's brief visit to Pyongyang in June 2019.
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/o...
Hope I can write an epilogue to Journal of Asian Studies piece on the parade in 2015. h/t @jwassers.bsky.social
Back then, Kim sent his #2 who hid in a back row while ROK president Park Geunhye was VIP guest
jstor.org/stable/24738...
Back then, Kim sent his #2 who hid in a back row while ROK president Park Geunhye was VIP guest
jstor.org/stable/24738...
Looking Back on the Seventieth Anniversary of Japan's Surrender on JSTOR
JOHN DELURY, SHEILA A. SMITH, MARIA REPNIKOVA, SRINATH RAGHAVAN, Looking Back on the Seventieth Anniversary of Japan's Surrender, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 74, No. 4 (NOVEMBER 2015), pp. 797-...
jstor.org
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hope I can write an epilogue to Journal of Asian Studies piece on the parade in 2015. h/t @jwassers.bsky.social
Back then, Kim sent his #2 who hid in a back row while ROK president Park Geunhye was VIP guest
jstor.org/stable/24738...
Back then, Kim sent his #2 who hid in a back row while ROK president Park Geunhye was VIP guest
jstor.org/stable/24738...
You could say it was triage, establishing rapport with Trump AND with the DC natsec establishment on the same trip. But hard choices await in terms of words and deeds if Lee is serious about peacemaking, or even 'pacemaking', w/ Kim Jong Un.
August 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
You could say it was triage, establishing rapport with Trump AND with the DC natsec establishment on the same trip. But hard choices await in terms of words and deeds if Lee is serious about peacemaking, or even 'pacemaking', w/ Kim Jong Un.