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Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes the people? Can a country so dependent on outside help continue to defy the international community? In Troubled Transition, leading international experts examine these dilemmas, offering new insights into how a troubled North Korea may evolve in light of the ways other command economies and totalitarian states have transitioned.

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Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes the people? Can a country so dependent on outside help continue to defy the international community? In Troubled Transition, leading international experts examine these dilemmas, offering new insights into how a troubled North Korea may evolve in light of the ways other command economies and totalitarian states have transitioned.
Autorenporträt
Sang-Hun Choe, a Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and reporter for the International Herald Tribune, was the 2010-2011 Fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Gi-Wook Shin is the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; founding director of its Korean Studies Program; and the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies at Stanford University. David Straub is associate director of the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Straub retired from the U.S. Department of State as a senior foreign service officer after a thirty-year career focused on Northeast Asian affairs.