CHANGING IN ORDER TO STAND STILL: THE CASE OF SURVIVALIST NORTH KOREA
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Many observers perceive economically-strained North Korea as incapable of making the changes needed to ensure the survival of regime and country; they regard the North's eventual demise as inevitable. This article examines the issue of North Korea's survivability and concludes otherwise, i.e., that its prospects are enhanced by marrying the conservative principle of changing in order to stand still with a strategy of 'minimalism-survivalism'. Finally, the articel underlines that South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" may prove no more effective in advancing the cause of unification than was all-out war in the Korean Peninsula nearly a half century ago nor cross-border skimishing since then, and that the stalemate between the two Koreas is likely to endure for as far into the future as one can see or imagine.
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Many observers perceive economically-strained North Korea as incapable of making the changes needed to ensure the survival of regime and country; they regard the North's eventual demise as inevitable. This article examines the issue of North Korea's survivability and concludes otherwise, i.e., that its prospects are enhanced by marrying the conservative principle of changing in order to stand still with a strategy of 'minimalism-survivalism'. Finally, the articel underlines that South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" may prove no more effective in advancing the cause of unification than was all-out war in the Korean Peninsula nearly a half century ago nor cross-border skimishing since then, and that the stalemate between the two Koreas is likely to endure for as far into the future as one can see or imagine.