And the Show Goes On: How the State Survived Marketization
In post-famine North Korea, the spread of markets has created a dilemma for the state. While markets are sources of revenue, they also threaten to state’s survival. How has the state responded? In the third installment in a series of reviews, Peter Ward looks at Yang Mun-su’s work on the state’s response to marketization.
Encroaching Devastation: Chris Green On Rice, Markets, and the Yuanization of North Korea
Encroaching Devastation: On Rice, Markets, and the Yuanization of North Korea by Christopher Green Christopher Green is Manager of International Affairs for Daily NK and writer of Destination Pyongyang, based in Seoul. Propaganda is only useful to a certain extent. For one thing –as the people of North Korea have long been aware and as […]
Coffee, Copper and Trade Winds: The Promise of Panama-South Korea Economic Relations
Bound by a free-trade agreement and some pretty unique value-adds, Panama and South Korea’s bilateral relationship has a promising future.
Russia and Korean Security: The Views from Seoul and Tokyo
Anthony Rinna looks at how Seoul and Tokyo have been dealing with Russia in a world of neo-Cold War tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Unveiling the North Korean Economy: A Roundtable Review
In this roundtable review, we take a magnifying glass to Unveiling the North Korean Economy by Kim Byung-yeon, to see whether the English language finally has the book on the North Korean economy that it needs.
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