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Week X:
March 12th and 14th
What's Happening Lately?
Tuesday, March 12th
Life in North Korea Today
Thursday, March 14th
The nuclear issue?
Reading:
- Tudor and Pearson, chaps 4 through conclusion
Graduate Readings
- Sandra Fahy, "Family, Mobile Phones, and Money: Contemporary Practices of Unification on the Korean Peninsula," In Joint US-Korea Academic Studies Vol. 26 (2015), Korea Economic Institute pp81-96 (on course website)
- Kim Jiyoon, "Ethnic Brothers or Migrants: North Korean Defectors in South Korea," In Joint USKorea Academic Studies Vol 26 (2015), Korea Economic Institute pp97-112 (on course website)
- Siegfried Hecker, "Lessons learned from the North Korean Nuclear Crisis), Daedalus 139 (Winter 2010) (On course website)
Study Questions:
- How do Gause versus Tudor and Pearson differ on repression in North Korea?
- What is the significance of changes in clothing fashion in North Korea?
- What's your opinion of North Korea's durability? Will it collapse?
- Is a solution to the nuclear impasse with North Korea in sight?
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