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
... Countries: Prospects for the Future (1990). He is coauthor of Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (1998), Reconcilable Differences? United States-Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993), and Japan in ...
... Countries: Prospects for the Future (1990). He is coauthor of Global Economic Effects of the Asian Currency Devaluations (1998), Reconcilable Differences? United States-Japan Economic Conflict with C. Fred Bergsten (1993), and Japan in ...
Pagina xi
... countries to discuss the key bilateral and global issues that they need to address together. During the past decade ... countries into a single narrative, and pulls together the inextricably entwined economic and security aspects of the ...
... countries to discuss the key bilateral and global issues that they need to address together. During the past decade ... countries into a single narrative, and pulls together the inextricably entwined economic and security aspects of the ...
Pagina xii
... countries' economies and a careful analysis of the three crises (the North Korean nuclear confrontation, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial disruption) that frame the situation on the Korean peninsula today. Noland ...
... countries' economies and a careful analysis of the three crises (the North Korean nuclear confrontation, the North Korean famine, and the South Korean financial disruption) that frame the situation on the Korean peninsula today. Noland ...
Pagina xix
... countries economically devastated and reliant on their respective patrons. While the pre-partition disposition of assets clearly favored the North, by the end of the war much of what had been inherited had been destroyed, and mass ...
... countries economically devastated and reliant on their respective patrons. While the pre-partition disposition of assets clearly favored the North, by the end of the war much of what had been inherited had been destroyed, and mass ...
Pagina xx
... countries in the 1950s and 1960s operated small research reactors, so in this regard North Korea was not unique. Of course, the fact that atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought Japan to its knees undoubtedly made an ...
... countries in the 1950s and 1960s operated small research reactors, so in this regard North Korea was not unique. Of course, the fact that atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought Japan to its knees undoubtedly made 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
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