Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two KoreasColumbia University Press, 1 giu 2000 - 456 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. |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina iv
... Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993), and Japan in the World Economy with Bela Balassa (1988), coeditor of Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System (1993), and editor of Economic Integration of the Korean ...
... Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993), and Japan in the World Economy with Bela Balassa (1988), coeditor of Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System (1993), and editor of Economic Integration of the Korean ...
Pagina xviii
... Japan successively defeated first China (1894-95) and then Russia (1904-05). The United States was among the Western powers that acquiesced to Japan's seizure of Korea in 1905 and its formal annexation in 1910. During the period of Japanese ...
... Japan successively defeated first China (1894-95) and then Russia (1904-05). The United States was among the Western powers that acquiesced to Japan's seizure of Korea in 1905 and its formal annexation in 1910. During the period of Japanese ...
Pagina xix
... Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union for their plight. Even in the South, such feelings festered despite the loss of more than 33,000 US casualties in the defense of South Korea (Drennan 1994). Divergent. Paths. After the war ...
... Japan, the United States, and the Soviet Union for their plight. Even in the South, such feelings festered despite the loss of more than 33,000 US casualties in the defense of South Korea (Drennan 1994). Divergent. Paths. After the war ...
Pagina xx
... Japan to its knees undoubtedly made an impression on Kim Ilsung,6 the former anti-Japanese guerilla and founding leader of North Korea—as did his own subsequent fight with the Americans. The North Korean nuclear program could have been ...
... Japan to its knees undoubtedly made an impression on Kim Ilsung,6 the former anti-Japanese guerilla and founding leader of North Korea—as did his own subsequent fight with the Americans. The North Korean nuclear program could have been ...
Pagina xxiv
... Japan, and China and Japan all turn. The range of possible outcomes on the Korean peninsula is enormous. The North Korean leadership faces essentially three broad economic options: they can adopt fundamental economic reforms in an ...
... Japan, and China and Japan all turn. The range of possible outcomes on the Korean peninsula is enormous. The North Korean leadership faces essentially three broad economic options: they can adopt fundamental economic reforms in an ...
Sommario
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The North Korean Economy | lxxv |
The Nuclear Confrontation | 3-74 |
The SlowMotion Famine in the North | 3-102 |
The Financial Crisis in the South | 3-126 |
The Prospect for Successful Reform in the North | 3-182 |
The Implications of North Korean Collapse | 285 |
Can the North Muddle Through? | 323 |
Conclusions | 347 |
References | 377 |
Appendix | 401 |
Index
| 405 |
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