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A most enterprising country
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ISBN: 1501704907 1501706055 1501706608 9781501706059 9781501704901 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca London

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North Korea has survived the end of the Cold War, massive famine, numerous regional crises, punishing sanctions, and international stigma. In A Most Enterprising Country, Justin V. Hastings explores the puzzle of how the most politically isolated state in the world nonetheless sustains itself in large part by international trade and integration into the global economy. The world's last Stalinist state is also one of the most enterprising, as Hastings shows through in-depth examinations of North Korea's import and export efforts, with a particular focus on restaurants, the weapons trade, and drug trafficking. Tracing the development of trade networks inside and outside North Korea through the famine of the 1990s and the onset of sanctions in the mid-2000s, Hastings argues that the North Korean state and North Korean citizens have proved pragmatic and adaptable, exploiting market niches and making creative use of brokers and commercial methods to access the global economy.North Korean trade networks-which include private citizens as well as the Kim family and high-ranking elites-accept high levels of risk and have become experts at operating in the blurred zones between licit and illicit, state and nonstate, and formal and informal trade. This entrepreneurialism has allowed North Korea to survive; but it has also caused problems for foreign firms investing in the country, emboldens the North Korean state in its pursuit of nuclear weapons, and may continue to shape the economy in the future.


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Unveiling the North Korean economy : collapse and transition
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ISBN: 9781316635162 9781107183797 1107183790 1316635163 9781316874882 1316879976 1316877388 1316874885 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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North Korea is one of the most closed and secretive societies in the world. Despite a high level of interest from the outside world, we have very little detailed information about how the country functions economically. In this valuable book for both the academic and policy-making circles, Byung-Yeon Kim offers the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of the present day North Korean economy in the context of economic systems and transition economics. It addresses what is really happening in the North Korean economy, why it has previously failed, and how the country can make the transition to a market economy. It takes advantage not only of carefully reconstructed macro data but also rich, new data at the micro level, such as quantitative surveys of North Korean refugees settled in South Korea, and the surveys of Chinese companies that interact heavily with North Korea.

North Korea's second nuclear crisis and northeast Asian security
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ISBN: 1317086597 1317086589 128120885X 9786611208851 0754688712 9780754688716 0754671763 9780754671763 9781317086598 9781317086581 6611208852 9781315598581 9781317086574 1315598582 Year: 2007 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate

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This key volume provides in-depth analysis of the inter-Korean and international dynamics of North Korea's nuclear crisis. It offers new insights into the six-party talks designed to resolve the crisis, suggests creative formulas to resolve the ongoing crisis and delves into the interests and policies of the major powers at the six-party negotiating table.


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Characterizing the North Korean nuclear missile threat
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ISBN: 0833076493 9780833076496 9780833076472 0833076477 9780833076489 0833076485 9780833076212 0833076213 Year: 2012 Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND,

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The security community generally believes that North Korea has a relatively sophisticated guided ballistic missile program. This report questions this view and seeks to better characterize the North Korean missile threat. The author compares the available data on the North Korean missile program against five hypotheses about the program's origins, sophistication, and scale, highlighting inconsistencies.


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Dialogue with North Korea?
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ISBN: 8776946886 9788776946883 9788776941260 8776941264 Year: 2013 Publisher: Copenhagen

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"There is hardly another country as isolated and with such a bleak image as North Korea. It is portrayed in the Western media as a Hermit Kingdom ruled by an outdated, communist dictatorship whose clandestine nuclear programmes alarm its neighbours and which uses dreadful labour camps to control a population wracked by famine. The regime's poor track record on human rights is stressed time and again by both Western governments and international organizations. Prospects look bleak for any improvement in relations let alone the start of a dialogue on human rights. Offering a rare, nuanced analysis of the North Korean situation, this short study argues that not only is a constructive and fruitful dialogue on human rights possible but also it is desirable for both parties."--P. [4] of cover.


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Poetry : a survivor's guide
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ISBN: 1786996626 1786996618 9781786996619 9781786996626 9781786996633 1786996634 9781786996602 178699660X 1350225622 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, England : [London, England] : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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Though North Korea holds the attention of the world, it is still rare for us to hear North Korean voices, beyond those few who have escaped. Known only by his pen name, the poet and author 'Bandi' stands as one of the most distinctive and original dissident writers to emerge from the country, and his work is all the more striking for the fact that he continues to reside in North Korea, writing in secret, with his work smuggled out of the country by supporters and relatives. The Red Years represents the first collection of Bandi's poetry to be made available in English. As he did in his first work The Accusation, Bandi here gives us a rare glimpse into everyday life and survival in North Korea. Singularly poignant and evocative, The Red Years stands as a testament to the power of the human spirit to endure and resist even the most repressive of regimes.

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