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Benjamin R. Young

@dubstepindprk.bsky.social

3.2K followers 199 following 85 posts

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. benjaminryoung.weebly.com

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Coming to (academic) bookstores near you this July. Published with @cornellupress.bsky.social

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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.

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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.

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

2025 calendar from the Russian FSB veterans charity. I have so many questions Found at propagandopolis

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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

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Benjamin R. Young @dubstepindprk.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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.

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