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Week VIII:
November
22nd: Why is North Korea Still Here?
Tuesday: Kim Jong Un Takes Over, State Trading Networks and North Korean Entrepreneurialism
Thursday: Thanksgiving Holiday
Discussion: (reading summary OK Friday)
Why is North Korea still here?
How do you imagine North Korea will evolve in the future?
Can you imagine a new and successful North Korea policy for the US?
Reading:
- Abrahamian, Being in North Korea, chaps 7-15
- Andrei Lankov, Peter Ward, Ho-yeol Yoo and Yi-young Kim, "Making Money in the State: North Korea's Pseudo-State Enterprises in the Early 2000s." Journal of East Asian Studies 17 (2017), 61-67 (available electronically through UW libraries)
- Optional:
- Fyodor Tertitskiy, "Exclusion as Privilage: The Chinese siapora in North Korea," The Journal of Korean Studies 20(1):177-99 (Spring 2015)
- Alek Sigley, "Sojourn in Paradise: The Experiences of Foreign Students in North Korea," The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 22(4):332-51.
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