The End of North Korea
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: September 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780844740874
Subjects: Political economy; Political structure & processes; Korea (North); Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; History: World; North Korea; BUS; BUS022000; Korean reunification question; Development - Economic Development; International Relations - General; Reference / General; Economic Conditions; Korean reunification question (1945- )
First sentence: In 1992, two years before his death, Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader" of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (also known as the DPRK, and North Korea)-to that date, the only ruler the state had ever known-began to publish a compendium of reminiscences about his life and times.
Description: "The political partition of the Korean nation, to which the modern world has grown so accustomed, will not last indefinitely. The permanent two-state system in Korea is, asserts Nicholas Eberstadt, an unsustainable proposition. In this volume he demonstrates how the events unfolding in the Korean peninsula over the past decade have been signaling, with mounting pitch and power, that the division of Korea has already reached the limits of its viability.

At some point in the years ahead, he avers, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which rules North Korea, will likely disappear from the political stage, and Korea will then reenter the international community as a united nation."--BOOK JACKET.