korean unification studies

From korea.net: the following is the gist of the agreement issued Friday (Nov. 16) after the three-day talks between the prime ministers of two Koreas in Seoul. South and North Korea will establish the Yellow Sea Special Zone for Peace and Cooperation. South and North Korea will commence in the first half of 2008 the [...]

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Seems like everyone is making predictions on the future of North Korea at the moment. The end of December is after all a decisive point when we will have a slightly better idea as to whether North Korea has really made a political and strategic decision to give up its nuclear weapons program.  According to a colleague [...]

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Good article by Andrei Lankov on Korean unification over at Asia Times. To sum it all up – Romania style collapse is coming soon to country near you (if you’re in South Korea). Give it a read! Sphere: Related Content

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  In all seriousness though, the meeting between Roh Moo-Hyun and Nong Duc Manh, Secretary-General of the Vietnamese Communist Party, after the latter’s visit to North Korea is quite significant. Vietnam could be held up as a model for North Korea. Although the fundamental economic conditions are very different between Vietnam and North Korea (in [...]

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I guess this is one reason why South Korea is so eager to ensure that inter-Korean economic projects proceed – North Korea is well on the way to becoming a Chinese province. A North Korean investment group and a Chinese bank will set up a 10 billion dollar fund to help Chinese firms build infrastructure…The [...]

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This is a video on the September arrest of foreign spies in the DPRK, detailed in earler posts, compiled by the kindly comrades at http://www.freewebs.com/dprk/ Sphere: Related Content

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The ROK Defense Ministry has announced that defense chiefs from North and South Korea will meet during 27-29 November in Pyongyang. ROK Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo and DPRK Vice-Marshal Kim Il-chol (also Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission), will discuss implementation of the Declaration for Development of North-South Relations and Peace and Prosperity, agreed to at [...]

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In the most recent Yonhap Vantage Point: Developments in North Korea (October 2007, Vol. 30, No. 10, p42) Sungwoo Kim takes an analytical look at North Korea’s trade during the period 1995 to 2005. Sungwoo Kim, a professor of economics at Boston’s Northeastern University, has written several very good analytical pieces in the past and is one of the [...]

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