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The Collapse of North Korea : Challenges, Planning and Geopolitics of Unification
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ISBN: 113759800X 1137598018 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book highlights the increasing risk of North Korea’s collapse and considers the necessary actions that would enable the neighboring powers to prepare for such an event. North Korea's deteriorating economic conditions, its reliance on external assistance, and the degree of information penetration all provide hints of its collapse. Whether the chance is high or low, the collapse of North Korea and subsequent Korean unification would drastically alter the geostrategic landscape and profoundly affect the national interests of the regional powers—South Korea, China, the United States, Japan, and Russia. The most desirable scenario for a post-unification Korean Peninsula is a successfully developed and integrated non-nuclear Korea acting as a responsible regional and world stakeholder. This work considers the major challenges expected after a North Korean collapse, including the control of nuclear weapons, disorder in the immediate aftermath of collapse, and economic and social integration. The author then outlines how regional powers need to prepare to handle these challenges in order to minimize suffering and to set the foundation for long-term development and regional stability.

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Political science. --- International relations. --- Globalization. --- Sociology. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- International Relations. --- Political Science. --- Sociology, general. --- Korean reunification question (1945- ) --- Korea (North) --- Korea --- Politics and government. --- Korean unification question (1945- ) --- Reunification of Korea (1945- ) --- Unification of Korea (1945- ) --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Social theory --- Relations. --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Corea --- Corée du Nord --- D.P.R.K. --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- DPRK --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- KNDR --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Korean People's Republic --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Koreĭskai͡a Narodno-Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika --- KRLD --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- North Korea --- North Korean Interim Government --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Corea (North) --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国


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Country report.
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ISSN: 20475470 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York : EIU, the Economist Intelligence Unit,

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Describes political and economic policy, the domestic economy, foreign trade and payments. Provides 18-24 month forecasts.

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Economic indicators --- Indicateurs économiques --- Economic history. --- Economic indicators. --- Politics and government. --- Korea (North) --- Aspect économique --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- Business indicators --- Indicators, Business --- Indicators, Economic --- Leading indicators --- Economic history --- Quality of life --- Economic forecasting --- Index numbers (Economics) --- Social indicators --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Chʻao-hsien min chu chu i jen min kung ho kuo --- Chōsen Minshu Shugi Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk --- Chosun Minchu-chui Inmin Konghwa-guk --- Corea --- Corée du Nord --- D.P.R.K. --- Democratic People's Republic of Korea --- DPRK --- K.N.D.R. --- K.R.L.D. --- KNDR --- Korea --- Koreai Népi Demokratikus Köztársaság --- Korean People's Democratic Republic --- Korean People's Republic --- Koreańska Republika Ludowo-Demokratyczna --- Koreĭskai︠a︡ Narodno-Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika --- KRLD --- Kūriyā al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- North Korea --- North Korean Interim Government --- People's Democratic Republic of Korea --- República Popular Democrática de Corea --- Korea (North Korean Government) --- Korea (Democratic People's Republic) --- Korea (People's Democratic Republic) --- Corea (North) --- Koreĭskai͡a Narodno-Demokraticheskai͡a Respublika --- Wirtschaftslage. --- Nordkorea. --- Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gongheguo --- 朝鲜民主主义人民共和国 --- Corée du Nord --- Politique et gouvernement


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A Most Enterprising Country
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ISBN: 1501704907 1501706055 1501706608 9781501706059 9781501704901 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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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, England ; Burlington, VT : 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, CA

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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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