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In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief. As households, enterprises, local party organs, and military units tried to cope with the economic collapse, a grassroots process of marketization took root. However, rather than embracing these changes, the North Korean regime opted for tentative economic reforms with ambiguous benefits and a self-destructive foreign policy. As a result, a chronic food shortage continues to plague North Korea today. In their carefully researched book, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland present the most comprehensive and penetrating account of the famine to date, examining not only the origins and aftermath of the crisis but also the regime's response to outside aid and the effect of its current policies on the country's economic future. Their study begins by considering the root causes of the famine, weighing the effects of the decline in the availability of food against its poor distribution. Then it takes a close look at the aid effort, addressing the difficulty of monitoring assistance within the country, and concludes with an analysis of current economic reforms and strategies of engagement. North Korea's famine exemplified the depredations that can arise from tyrannical rule and the dilemmas such regimes pose for the humanitarian community, as well as the obstacles inherent in achieving economic and political reform. To reveal the state's culpability in this tragic event is a vital project of historical recovery, one that is especially critical in light of our current engagement with the "North Korean question."

K9300.90 --- K9400.90 --- K9341.85 --- Korea: Social sciences -- social and cultural history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Economy and industry -- history -- North Korea (1945- ) --- Korea: Social policy and philanthropy -- international aid received -- North Korea --- Food supp --- Aide alimentaire --- Korea (North) --- Corée du Nord --- -Korea --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- Corée du Nord --- Famine relief --- Food aid programs --- Food assistance programs --- Famines --- Food supply --- Food relief --- Disaster relief --- Humanitarian assistance --- Public welfare --- Emergency food supply --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Famine --- Starvation --- Economic conditions. --- Economic policy. --- Social conditions. --- Conditions économiques --- Politique économique --- Conditions sociales --- Food distribution programs

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Korea (North) --- Korean People's Republic --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- North Korea --- KNDR --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- KRLD --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- D.P.R.K. --- DPRK --- Corée du Nord --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Corea (North) --- North Korean Interim Government --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国

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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.

Korea (North) --- Economic conditions. --- Foreign economic relations. --- Politics and government --- Korean People's Republic --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- North Korea --- KNDR --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- KRLD --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- D.P.R.K. --- DPRK --- Corée du Nord --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Corea (North) --- North Korean Interim Government --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 --- E-books --- Asian Studies. --- General Economics. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.

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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.

Nuclear weapons --- Ballistic missiles --- Strategic culture --- Culture --- Military policy --- National security --- Missiles, Ballistic --- Guided missiles --- Rockets (Aeronautics) --- Korea (North) --- Korean People's Republic --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- North Korea --- KNDR --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- KRLD --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- D.P.R.K. --- DPRK --- Corée du Nord --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Corea (North) --- North Korean Interim Government --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 --- Strategic aspects. --- Military policy. --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations.