Abstract:In this article, I address North Korea both in its latent stage and the reframing of its early political narratives to support the function and authority of its current government. These narratives of nationalistic and political struggle expand across geographic boundaries and are also bound by them—hence my focus on the Tumen River. Secondarily, I consider the reframing of riverine spaces within the terrain of Pyongyang’s contemporary politics, and recent examples of reenactment for commemorative purposes of historically and politically important crossings of North Korea’s northern rivers. Together, these analytic elements suggest the key position of rivers in both the bounding and unbounding of North Korean history, politics, ideology, and nationhood.

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水景中的魅力：朝鲜叙事地形与图们江

摘要：在本文中，我针对朝鲜的潜伏期和对其早期政治叙事的重构以支持其现任政府的职能和权威。这些民族主义和政治斗争的叙述跨越了地理边界，也受地理边界的约束——因此我将重点放在图们江上。其次，我考虑了平壤当代政治领域内河流空间的重新规划，以及最近为纪念历史和政治上重要的朝鲜北部河流过境而重新制定的例子。总之，这些分析元素表明河流在朝鲜历史、政治、意识形态和国家的界限和界限中的关键地位。