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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... unions were reorganized along Japanese lines as company unions to discourage strikes . Union - shop clauses were abolished . The minimum number of workers required to organize a union was increased . Consequently , the official ...
... Union provided North Korea with $ 2.2 billion in aid and credits ( Hwang 1993 , table 5.4 ) .50 Military goods played a prominent role in this . According to Zacek ( 1998 ) , between 1981 and 1985 the Soviet Union supplied North Korea ...
... union with South Korea . ) 40 As shown in this figure , the impact of the relaxation of the constraint would be greatest at the begin- ning and would decline thereafter , as could be expected on the basis of microeconomic theory . A ...
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Introduction 1347 | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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