Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasInstitute for International Economics, 2000 - 431 pagine On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-ridden-and possibly nuclear-armed-totalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that have a direct stake in these affairs. This study, the most comprehensive volume to date on the subject, examines the current situation in the two Koreas in terms of three major crises: the nuclear confrontation between the United States and North Korea, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial crisis. The future of the peninsula is then explored under three alternative scenarios: successful reform in North Korea, collapse and absorption (as happened in Germany), and "muddling through" in which North Korea, supported by foreign powers, makes ad hoc, regime-preserving reforms that fall short of fundamental transformation. |
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... Soviet Union , and aid from fraternal socialist allies began to dry up . The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent breakup of the Eastern Bloc was a major macroeconomic shock that ush- ered in a period of as yet unabated ...
... Soviet Union . In addition to goods , the Soviets also supplied blueprints and technical assistance . However , by the mid - 1980s the disenchanted Soviets began pressuring the North Koreans to begin repaying the accumulated credits ...
... Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . Romania subse- quently refused to join the Soviet Union in boycotting the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics . In economic policy , Romania pursued a similar combination of internal orthodoxy and symbolic ...
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Introduction 1347 | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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