Recent Economic Policies of North Korea: Analysis and Recommendations

Asian Survey ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 864-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungwoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
North Korea ◽  
Economic Policies

Why North Korea Could Not Implement the Chinese Style Reform and Opening? The Internal Contradiction Between Economic Reform and Political Stability

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-324
Author(s):  
Sungmin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Internal Contradiction ◽  
Reform And Opening Up ◽  
Opening Up

Can North Korea implement Chinese-style reform and opening-up policies? This is an important question, directly relevant to the policy debate on North Korea’s nuclear challenges. Through comparative historical analysis, I argue that Pyongyang has failed to adopt the Chinese-style reform and opening-up for the internal and structural restraints. The Chinese experience shows that the economic reform and opening, to be successful, requires a certain degree of political reform and openness to be executed together. North Korea could not implement the economic reform and opening policies as effectively as China did, not because of the external conditions like international sanctions or security threat to the country, but more for the internal contradiction that North Korea’s own economic development is likely to endanger the stability of the political system more rapidly and widely than China has experienced. For this analysis, I rely on North Korea’s published laws and economic policies, previous survey works and scholarly works published in Korean and Chinese.

scholarly journals North Korean Economic Development and the Evolution of the North Korean-Soviet Alliance, 1955–1964

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
N. I. Matveeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The North ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

This article looks at the Soviet-North Korean alliance from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, with a focus on the often understudied connection between international politics and domestic economic development strategies. It traces and explains the changes in bilateral relations, from a relatively disinterested provision of assistance on the Soviet part and the desire to emulate the USSR on the part of North Korea, to an investment interest of the Soviet Union in the North Korean economic policies, and back to the Soviet Union as a donor of aid aiming to retain the DPRK within its orbit, with North Korea striving to assert self-sufficiency and distance itself. The article also explores the differences in the position of North Korea and the Soviet Union on economic matters and the disputes over prioritizing heavy industry development that took place at the time. Based on a variety of primary sources, it shows how the alliance dynamics was reflected in the economic sphere. It argues that economic matters played a significant role in the cooling of bilateral relations by the mid-1960s.

scholarly journals China in D. Trump’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Valeryevna Leksyutina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
North Korea ◽  
International System ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Paris Climate Agreement ◽  
High Level

With Trump as a president of the US from January 2017 and his decisive actions, which have undermined many agreements reached by previous American administrations (like withdrawal from the TTP, the Paris climate agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, the UNESCO, etc.), the international system and regional subsystems are under serious reconfiguration and readjustments. This accentuates the necessity to systemize Trump’s actions and initiatives in the realm of foreign policy and foreign trade, to interpret these actions’ logic, and to evaluate the changes that Trump’s policies have brought about. It is of high importance to analyze Trump’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific which is the priority region in his foreign policy agenda and the region where two major threats to the US and its allies are coming from - the rise of China as a country that pursues unfair trade and economic policies and reveals assertiveness in securing its core interests, and the threat from the North Korea. The aim of the article is to analyze China’s place in Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy. By studying American conceptual documents, Trump’s and other American high-level officials’ speeches, the article characterizes Trump’s free and open Indo-Pacific strategy, reveals its commonalities and peculiarities vis-à-vis Obama’s rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific strategy. The article also addresses the issue of Trump’s policies in the region on the economic front, because this is where Trump administration has introduces dramatic changes. Trump’s Indo-Pacific strategy is examined in the article in the context of its impact on the US-China relations. The relations between the two countries - without exaggeration, one of the most consequential for the world - may seriously deteriorate due to not only the evolving US-China trade war, but also contradictions between them over various issues in the IndoPacific region. The article analyzes the aggravation of tensions between the US and China in 2017-2018 over South and East China Seas, Taiwan issue, and North Korea issue.

Language policy: An economics perspective

2016 ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
D. Kadochnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Economic Phenomenon ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Economic theory of language policy treats a language as an economic phenomenon. A language situation is considered to be an economic, or market, situation, while language policy becomes an element of economic policies. The paper aims to systematize and to further develop theoretical and methodological aspects of this promising research field situated between economics and sociolinguistics.

From universalism to individualism: New approaches to economic growth analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 108-126
Author(s):  
Ivan L. Lyubimov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Growth Analysis ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Adequate Account ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Catching Up

This paper examines the evolution of academic and applied approaches to analyze the problem of economic growth since the mid-XX century. For quite an extended period of time, these views were corresponding to universalist economic policies taking no adequate account of particularities and limitations that a certain catching-up economy embodied. New approaches analyzing the problems of economic growth, on the contrary, individualize growth diagnostics, structural transformation and the organization of reforms processes for the emerging economies. We argue that individualist approaches might be potentially more effective than the universalist ones for solving the problem of slow economic growth.

A Biological Threat of North Korea and South Korea’s Preparations

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 177-207
Author(s):  
Jae-wan Park ◽  
Ki-woong Choi
Keyword(s):  
North Korea
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