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	Asia Times: North Korea's Kim-made famine
		That sent the whole North Korean economy into free-fall, halving national income and exposing Kim Il-sung's vaunted self-reliance as a delusion.
		These range from 270,000 all the way up to 3 million - which would mean one in eight North Koreans have died in the past six years, a hardly imaginable holocaust.
		North Korea has yet to recover from that terrible summer, let alone those that ensued.
	www.atimes.com /koreas/CE23Dg02.html (947 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: What is Propping up the North Korean Regime?
		As best can be told, the North Korean famine — which almost certainly claimed hundreds of thousands of victims and may well have killed a million people between 1995 and 19984 — ceased raging about five years ago.
		North Korea in the mid- and late 1990s, I argued, was set on a trajectory for economic collapse — for its domestic economy was incapable of producing the requisite goods necessary for the maintenance of a division of labor, and the regime seemed utterly unable to finance their purchase from abroad.
		North Korea’s international counterfeiting, drug trafficking, weapons, and weapon technology sales all figure here, although the sums raised from those activities are a matter of some dispute.
	windsofchange.net /archives/005679.php (5980 words)

	North Korea changing rapidly
		Korean Texas Baptists had donated $20,000 for North Korean famine relief through the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and their leaders were seeking additional ways to become involved.
		North Korea has changed a lot in the last two years, a Korean Texas Baptist pastor noted upon his return recently.
		He went to North Korea recently with Bong Hee Han, pastor of Green Acres Korean Church in Tyler, and Benjamin Kim, Asian church consultant with Dallas Association.
	www.baptiststandard.com /1997/12_10/pages/korea.html (487 words)

	Dangerous Divide @ National Geographic Magazine
		The North Korean sentinels are no slouches either—ramrod straight, steely eyed, and among the best fed people in their famine-threatened country.
		I also notice Major Kim, the South Korean officer I had interviewed, toeing the Military Demarcation Line—which here is a strip of concrete between the buildings—and glaring like a bad dream at the North Korean soldiers, who glare back.
		The occasion is a "body repatriation," involving the remains of four North Koreans who have washed down rivers into the south.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0307/feature1 (1162 words)

	For Korean neighbors, China suggests 'two systems'
		North Korean leader "Kim Jong Il is only likely to agree to a union that would preserve his hold on power, and the 'one country, two systems' blueprint could be the only model that would ensure that," says the Chinese scholar, who frequently travels to North Korea to consult with Pyongyang.
		For decades after the Korean War, Beijing was Pyongyang's top arms supplier, but some moderates in the leadership began to fear the closed-off, heavily militarized North Korea their revolutionary predecessors helped create.
		He says war or widespread famine in Korea "could each trigger a mass flow of refugees into China," and adds Beijing has been quietly encouraging the North's market reforms to feed its people and opening of diplomatic ties with the West to end its belligerent image in the world arena.
	www.richmond.edu /~vwang/ps345/art200.htm (846 words)

	Lovasz.Andrew.NorthKorea
		The New York Times Reports that RAmerican diplomats are reported to have strongly pressed North Korean counterparts to cancel the test.S17 The diplomatic process of making North Korea believe that it is in their best interests to comply with U.S. demands is an excellent example of persuasion in a delicate situation.
		Marcus Noland notes Reven North Korean officials admit the economy has shrunk by 30 percent since 1991.S3 There are troubles not only for the economy, but for the North Korean people.
		Due to the closed nature of North Korean society, the only evidence that can be found to substantiate this claim is in the tone of the articles written about America.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~rtanter/F96PS472PAPERS/Lovasz.Andrew.NorthKorea (4708 words)

	Korea, North
		The North Korean invaders swiftly seized Seoul and surrounded the allied forces in the peninsula's southeast corner near Pusan.
		Antagonism between North and South Korea erupted into open aggression twice within six months in late 1998 and 1999, with South Korea hitting one North Korean vessel and sinking two others that were discovered trespassing in South Korean waters.
		In late December 2002, North Korea expelled UN weapons inspectors from the country and announced it could no longer agree to the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), officially withdrawing from it in January 2003.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107686.html (1512 words)

	Nautilus Institute: Papers/Regional
		The Politics of the North Korean Famine ( Text File)
		Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implementation of the U.S./North Korean Agreed Framework on Nuclear Issues
		Nuclear Nonproliferation: Implications of the U.S./North Korean Agreement on Nuclear Issues Issues
	www.nautilus.org /papers/regional.html (1512 words)

	Korea, North
		The North Korean invaders swiftly seized Seoul and surrounded the allied forces in the peninsula's southeast corner near Pusan.
		In a desperate bid to reverse the military situation, UN Commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered an amphibious landing at Inchon on Sept. 15 and routed the North Korean army.
		In late December 2002, North Korea expelled UN weapons inspectors from the country and announced it could no longer agree to the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), officially withdrawing from it in January 2003.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107686.html (1550 words)

	The Politics of Famine in North Korea: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		The North Korean regime has de facto privatized the food distribution system; its revolutionary fervor has diminished over time and by the famine itself; and it has no allies left to save it in the event of a military coup, which is the only serious threat to the survival of the regime.
		North Korean military incidents against Japan, the United States, and South Korea may be an effort by Kim Jong Il to focus the attention of his military, whose loyalty he doubts, on an external threat that he himself regularly provokes.
		According to refugee accounts, the worst famine-affected city in North Korea was Hamhung City, the country's largest industrialized city with the highest proportion of factory workers, and coincidentally the headquarters of the corps-level unit that planned the coup at the peak of the famine.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html (7304 words)

	deseretnews.com No consensus on N. Korea's aims
		Then there is the story that North Korea's reclusive, eccentric leader — responsible for the deaths of as many as 2 million people by famine — is such a sensitive person that when he accidentally shot a pregnant deer while hunting he had it raced to a hospital to be saved.
		It has also engaged in terrorism: On Kim's orders, North Korean agents blew up a South Korean jet in 1987, killing 115 people, according to one of the accused plotters.
		North Korea does a booming legal business in ballistic missile sales and is widely suspected of bankrolling itself through methamphetamine and heroin sales and counterfeiting, according to numerous reports.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600134041,00.html (7304 words)

	The Command Post - Global Recon
		Citing interviews with North Korean defectors, a Seoul-based research institute said yesterday that the regime in Pyongyang is continuing an aggressive campaign to suppress underground churches in the country.
		A couple and their nine-year-old son defected from famine-hit North Korea by boat on Sunday and were being questioned on South Korea’s western island of Baekryong, the military said.
		North Korean defectors are quoted in the report as saying that Pyongyang is doing everything it can to stop the spread of Protestantism in the communist country.
	www.command-post.org /nk (7304 words)

	Omniseek: /Open Directory /Regional /Asia /North Korea /Cities and Provinces /
		Korea: Links to news, maps, information about Korea, including the North Korean Famine Emergency.
		The Silent Famine in North Korea Why Sho.
		Online NewsHour Forum: The North Korea Famine -- August 26, 1997
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{40627} (298 words)

	Global Beat: North Korea's 'New'Nuclear Site - Fact or Fiction?
		North Korea may be economically weak now and on the verge of famine, but, pessimists in the American intelligence community believe, once it has restored its economic vigor, Pyongyang could unveil secretly hidden weapons of mass destruction and return to a coercive and hostile foreign policy toward both Seoul and Washington.
		North Korea's military leaders, recalling the intense bombing by the United States during the Korean War, are trying to hide and to protect its most important facilities from possible aerial bombardment.
		North Koreans told me all of this construction was designed to better protect the nuclear facility from possible attack by American Tomahawk missiles and F-15 fighters.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat/asia/quinones100798.html (298 words)

	50 Years and Counting: The Impact of the Korean War on the People of the Peninsula
		The South Koreans were capable of great cruelty to the North Koreans; equal to that meted out by the North Koreans during the Communist push to the south.
		Korean writer Pak Wan-so lost her uncle and her brother soon after the war broke out; both were falsely accused of being Communists and died as a result.
		In the Associated Press package on No Gun Ri it noted that: "In one notorious case, two South Korean army officers were sentenced to life in prison in 1951 for leading an army massacre of 187 people in a South Korean village deemed supportive of communist guerrillas."
	www.calvin.edu /news/releases/2001_02/korea.htm (3034 words)

	U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
		But North Korean claims that the famine was due primarily to natural disasters and external shocks are misleading in important respects.
		North Korea is well into its second decade of chronic food shortages.
		Satellite photography and testimony from escaped former prisoners reveal that North Korea has between 150,000 and 200,000 political prisoners working as slave laborers in prison colonies known as kwan-li-so.
	www.hrnk.org (615 words)

	Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woo-Cumings, Meredith, Political Ecology of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe and Its Lessons, ADB Institute Research Paper 31, January 2002.
		The Great Famine of 1315-1317 (or to 1322) was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century, millions in northern Europe would die over an extended number of years, marking a clear end to the earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th and 12th centuries.
		Thus the 1867-68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the 1877-78 famine, caused by drought across northern China, was a vast catastrophe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famine (4294 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: The North Korea Famine -- August 26, 1997
		South Korea, which was invaded by the North in the 1950's, worried that food aid given to their adversary would be used to feed the million man North Korean army.
		Their defection, although not directly tied to the famine, was yet another example of the tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive communist nation.
		Although reports of wide-spread famine began coming out last summer, it was not until this summer that the reclusive communist nation allowed the United Nations and other groups to begin relief work.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html (776 words)

	Famine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woo-Cumings, Meredith, Political Ecology of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe and Its Lessons, ADB Institute Research Paper 31, January 2002.
		The Great Famine of 1315-1317 (or to 1322) was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century, millions in northern Europe would die over an extended number of years, marking a clear end to the earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th and 12th centuries.
		Thus the 1867-68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the 1877-78 famine, caused by drought across northern China, was a vast catastrophe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Famine (4257 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Spy's escape from North Korean 'hell'
		Mr Aoyama has found himself in the public spotlight in Japan because of the controversy over Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Born to Korean parents in Japan, he was one of about 100,000 people who left voluntarily in the early 1960s in the hope of starting a new life in North Korea.
		Pulled by the promise of paradise, Mr Aoyama set sail for North Korea in 1960 at the age of 21.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2631839.stm (790 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Action Against Hunger Withdraws from N. Korea
		The North Korean economy was founded, until the end of the 80’s, on privileged commercial relationships within the communist block, and especially with the USSR and China, allowing imports at very preferential rates, particularly soviet petrol and technology.
		In a way, the most deprived North Koreans, those who continue to die of hunger, are being sacrificed on the altar of a "realpolitik" that aims at stabilising the Pyongyang regime and at limiting its capacity of military harmfulness.
		North Hamgyong is one of the country’s most populous provinces with 2.2 million inhabitants.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/s/F64F8A57C500B81D852568AC005A634D (5003 words)

	BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific N Korea 'kills detainees' babies'
		Between 200,000 and 300,000 North Koreans are believed to have crossed into China in the 1990s at the height of the country's famine.
		The CHRNK says testimony of a former prisoner of a North Korean gulag from 1967-74 is very similar to contemporary accounts, and indicates that the mistreatment of prisoners has not changed much in the last 30 years.
		If fleeing North Koreans are discovered by Chinese police, they are almost always returned home.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3204509.stm (694 words)

	Twice the Rice: Thinking that love is enough
		The history of overseas adoption is one, the faith of the comfort women, the Japanese overtake of Korea, the discrimination of the koreans in Japan, the division of the korean peninsula to the ongoing famine in North korea to name a few examples.
		I highly respect all adopted Koreans who learn to appreciate and be proud of their korean identities despite the awkward policy of the motherland.
		All adopted koreans who engage themselves in associations for adopted, are courageous people who have taken stand against a white dominated society who demands assimilation, all of you are korean patriots, I think.
	adobokimbap.blogspot.com /2005/07/thinking-that-love-is-enough.html (2403 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: What is Propping up the North Korean Regime?
		As best can be told, the North Korean famine — which almost certainly claimed hundreds of thousands of victims and may well have killed a million people between 1995 and 19984 — ceased raging about five years ago.
		To the contrary, North Korean leadership had been highlighting the dangers of that tendency for at least a decade before the final collapse of the Soviet Union.
		At the end of the day, we can never know what would have happened if the United States and her allies in Asia and Europe had refrained from underwriting the survival of the North Korean state in the late 1990s and the early years of the present decade.
	windsofchange.net /archives/005679.php (2403 words)

	The Politics of Famine in North Korea: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		According to refugee accounts, the worst famine-affected city in North Korea was Hamhung City, the country's largest industrialized city with the highest proportion of factory workers, and coincidentally the headquarters of the corps-level unit that planned the coup at the peak of the famine.
		North Korean military incidents against Japan, the United States, and South Korea may be an effort by Kim Jong Il to focus the attention of his military, whose loyalty he doubts, on an external threat that he himself regularly provokes.
		North Korea is no exception to this pattern of behavior, though the population control system appears to have constrained some of these movements (unlike Africa where the population is more nomadic and national boundaries do not constrain movement).
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html (7327 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Korea, North
		After failing in the Korean War (1950-53) to conquer the US-backed Republic of Korea (ROK) in the southern portion by force, North Korea (DPRK), under its founder President KIM Il-so'ng, adopted a policy of ostensible diplomatic and economic "self-reliance" as a check against excessive Soviet or Communist Chinese influence.
		Massive international food aid deliveries have allowed the people of North Korea to escape mass starvation since famine threatened in 1995, but the population continues to suffer from prolonged malnutrition and poor living conditions.
		Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html (1692 words)

	Famine Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org
		Woo-Cumings, Meredith, Political Ecology of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe and Its Lessons, ADB Institute Research Paper 31, January 2002.
		The Great Famine of 1315-1317 (or to 1322) was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century, millions in northern Europe would die over an extended number of years, marking a clear end to the earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th and 12th centuries.
		Thus the 1867-68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the 1877-78 famine, caused by drought across northern China, was a vast catastrophe.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Famine (4338 words)

	Day of Prayer, Fasting for North Korea - New York Event
		The service will include Korean music, a testimony about "The Silent Famine in North Korea" by Rabbi Schindler, readings and meditation on scripture by the Rev. Calvin Butts, and a slide show by Korean youth.
		People in at least 70 cities around the world, including Pope John Paul II and the Dalai Lama, are joining the Day of Fasting to demonstrate their humanitarian concern for the North Korean people.
		Over a million North Korean children under age 6 are suffering from serious malnutrition.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/news32.html (361 words)

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