<div dir="ltr">Thanks Frank. A US document reveals it to be a northern Korea newspaper, but who can completely trust this assessment. It is not critical to what I am writing now but a little understanding of the publication would be nice, at a minimum whether it was a magazine or newspaper. The Marx connection, of course, makes sense. I am finding the writing relatively "liberal" time of NK journalism, particularly compared to what came after<div><br></div><div>Mark</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">2020年8月10日(月) 15:03 Frank Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:hoffmann@koreanstudies.com">hoffmann@koreanstudies.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello Mark:<br>
<br>
Nǒngno 넝로 -- no clue, never heard, but what comes to mind <br>
immediately when hearing "넝 + 로" is of course Marx' <br>
"Lumpenprotetariat" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpenproletariat</a>), <br>
as a contraction of 넝마 + 로동.<br>
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Best,<br>
Frank<br>
<br>
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:34:55 +0900, MARK E. CAPRIO wrote:<br>
> I am reading a collection of North Korean (and some southern Korean <br>
> progressive) newspapers from the early years of liberation. These are <br>
> contained in a multi-volume, and rather expensive, set titled as <br>
> follows.<br>
> Puk Chosǒn sillok: Nyǒn p’yo saryo [North Korean Authentic Record: <br>
> Chronology and Documents]. Kim Kwang’un, general ed. (Seoul: Korea <br>
> Data Project, 2018).<br>
> <br>
> Early (1945-6) records contain information from a newspaper? magazine <br>
> called 넝로 Nǒngno. My question is whether anyone knows anything <br>
> about this periodical. All that I have been able to gather (assume <br>
> really) is that it was published in the north. Any help would be <br>
> greatly appreciated.<br>
> <br>
> Mark Caprio<br>
> Rikkyo University (This year at Hallym University)<br>
> <br>
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