@article{M359BA0C6,
title = "Catching Weasels in Silent Mountains: A Multispecies History of Hunting in North Korea from the 1940s to the 1960s",
journal = "Academia Koreana",
year = "2025",
issn = "1520-7412",
doi = "10.18399/acta.2025.28.2.003",
author = "Donghyun Woo",
keywords = "Cold War, DPRK, hunting, multispecies history, North Korea",
abstract = "This article deals with the disappearance of hunting in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to reconsider human-centered narratives of modern authoritarianism. I examine how the perception of hunting in North Korea changed through Pyongyang’s ineffective efforts to classify and exploit animals according to their perceived value in building socialism. In particular, I highlight local understandings of fauna and the gradual disappearance of conventional hunting from state media, a reflection of the disorganized attempts to regulate hunting and mobilize animals for material ends. Contrary to these ambitions, local populations compelled the regime into a tacit compromise, resulting in official silence on hunting."
}