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According to the South Korean government, the North Korean economy shrank in 2010, marking the second consecutive year of negative growth.  On South Korean reckoning, per capita income

Victor Cha has argued that North Korea does not commit provocations when engaged; a short paper “Has South Korea’s Engagement Policy Reduced North Korea’s Provocations?,” in the current

Today at the semi-annual Asian Economic Policy Review conference, Kim Byung-yeon presented the preliminary draft of a paper co-authored with Jeon Woo-taek, Jung Seung-ho, and Yu Shi-eun on

My former teacher, the late Bela Balassa, once observed that the maintenance of a radically distorted price structure, as existed in his native Hungary during the communist period,

Last month we released “Integration in the Absence of Institutions,” a paper based on a survey of 300 Chinese enterprises operating in North Korea.  This week at the

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly arrived in Ulan-Ude early yesterday, an eastern Siberian city in the Buryatiya region where he is expected to meet with Russian President

North Korea has begun a four-day international trade fair in the country's northeast, where it is building an economic development zone in cooperation with China. North Korea and China

RUSSIAN military officers flew to North Korea yesterday for talks about renewing military ties as North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's armored train rolled through the resource-rich far

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Leaders of Korea and Mongolia agreed Monday to significantly boost cooperation on energy and other resources and to elevate their relations to a “comprehensive