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Reunification of Korea is a Major Security Issue on the Korean Peninsula: The North Korean Perspective Ma Tong Hui ASIA PAPER, October 2010 Read more The Conclusion of a Peace Treaty is

Sen. Lugar releases CRS report on DPRK sanctions (H/T NKEconwatch) The CRS report he received can be found here.

Trade between the two Koreas in the first half of 2010 totaled 980 million USD, 51.3 percent more than the 650 million dollars-worth of trade last year. North

In 2009, North Korea’s foreign trade (not including inter-Korean trade) amounted to 3.41 billion dollars, 10.5 percent less than 2008, which saw the largest amount of DPRK overseas

On May 24, the South Korean government announced, in response to the Cheonan incident, the cessation of inter-Korean exchanges and other sanctions against Pyongyang. These measures will directly

Ri Ki Song, a professor at the Institute of Economics, a part of North Korea’s Academy of Social Sciences, acknowledged during an interview on April 18 that

The East Asia Institute and the Ilmin International Relations Institute have both issued new working papers on North Korea’s economy and its impact on regional

Currency “Reform” in North Korea by James M. Lister (jml@keia.org) “It’s the economy, stupid!” (attributed to James Carville, 1992 presidential campaign) Free elections are not part of North Korea’s political fabric, but

It has recently been verified that following the currency reforms at the end of last year, North Korea passed 11 laws revising and reforming the system of government