April 19, 2024
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Oh: Aiding bottom-up marketization key to reform

U.S., S. Korea must step up efforts to provide information, mobilize N. Koreans, expert says

The role of the U.S. and South Korea is to incentivize the merger of bottom-up market changes and elites' questioning of the Kim leadership, said Kongdan Oh of the Council on Foreign Relations and its Korea Task Force.

This can be done by providing as much information about the outside world as possible through defectors and technology, she said.

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