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Original Articles

North Korea as an economy under multiple severe stresses: Analogies and lessons from past and recent historical experience

Pages 233-255 | Published online: 13 Dec 2007

Notes

  • 1994 . Tong‐a Ilbo , 13 May
  • United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service , ed. 13 May 1994 . “ ‘D.P.R.K. Reportedly Facing “Worst Food Crisis” ‘ ” . In Daily Report: East Asia (hereafter FBIS/EA) 13 May , 23
  • 1996 . Chungang Ilbo , 18 February
  • 1996 . ‘ROK: D.P.R.K. Citizens “Swarming” to Pyongyang for Food’ . FBIS/EA , 20 February : 44 – 45 .
  • 1996 . Digital Choson Ilbo , 14 June
  • 1996 . ‘ROK: N. Koreans Travel To Forage; Envoys Seek Food For Families’ . FBIS/EA , 17 June : 56
  • 1995 . Sankei Shimbun , 31 August
  • 1995 . ‘Sources Say Cholera Outbreak Killed 230 People’ . FBIS/EA , 11 September : 30 – 31 .
  • 1996 . Digital Choson Ilbo , 18 June
  • 1996 . ‘ROK: “At Least 100” Allegedly Die of Hunger in D.P.R.K.’s Hamhung’ . FBIS/EA , 19 June : 46
  • 1994 . Nodong Sinmun , 28 May
  • 1994 . FBIS/EA , 28 June : 28 – 30 .
  • 1995 . Minju Choson , 15 January
  • 1995 . FBIS/EA , 7 March : 38 – 41 .
  • 1995 . Nodong Sinmun , 21 January
  • 1995 . FBIS/EA , 1 March : 43 – 45 .

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