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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... famine that currently grips the country . The international community's response to that famine has been fundamentally conditioned on concerns about North Korea's weap- ons of mass destruction and its intercontinental delivery systems ...
... famine as a product of natural disaster , a portrayal that a number of relief agencies found to their advantage . " The floods of 1995 were followed by more , though less severe , floods in July 1996 and by renewed appeals for help.10 ...
... famine are presumably tuberculosis , pneumonia , dysentery , and spontaneous abortions , not 50. Lorien Holland , Agence France - Presse , 1 February 1999 . 51. Lemaire stated : " Essentially the situation is worsening ... we are ...
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Introduction | 1 |
References | 5 |
The South Korean Economy until 1997 | 15 |
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