Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform 9780231511520, 0231140002, 0231140003, 0231511523, 9780231140003

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The so

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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
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This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the le

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Following the death of Kim Jong Il, North Korea has entered a period of profound transformation laden with uncertainty.

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The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unp

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Almost forty years after the publication of Hobsbawm and Ranger’s The Invention of Tradition, the subject of invented tr

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Throughout North Korea’s history, it has regarded external relations with suspicion and as a potential threat to its reg

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