North Korean Paradoxes
Subtitle: Circumstances, Costs, And Consequences of Korean Unification
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780833037626
Subjects: Economics; International relations; Security, International; History - General History; History; History: World; Korea; Asia - Korea; Korean reunification question (1945- )
First sentence: The principal aim of this research is to analyze some of the central issues associated with Korean reunification-and especially its attendant costs.
Description: Analyzes economic, political, and security issues associated with Korean unification. Considers how the North Korean system might unravel, leading to possible unification, and what the capital costs of unification would be under differing circumstances and assumptions. Compares points of relevance and nonrelevance between the German experience with unification in the 1990s and what might occur in Korea.