TY  - JOUR
T1  - Catching Weasels in Silent Mountains: A Multispecies History of Hunting in North Korea from the 1940s to the 1960s
AU  - Woo, Donghyun 
JO  - Academia Koreana
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/6/14
DO  - 10.18399/acta.2025.28.2.003
KW  - Cold War
KW  - DPRK
KW  - hunting
KW  - multispecies history
KW  - North Korea
AB  - 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.