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A Quantitative Comparison of Socio-economic Conditions

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Sort Desciption: If we are to attempt a meaningful comparison of socio-economic conditions in North and South. Korea and at the same time avoid the pitfalls of false ...

Content Inside: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN DIVIDED KOREA: A TALE OF TWO STRATEGIES 1 Nicholas Eberstadt American Enterprise Institute Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies HCPDS Working Paper Series Volume 11 Number 5 April 2001 Nicholas Eberstadt American Enterprise Institute 1150 17 th Street NW Washington DC 20036 Harvard School of Public Health Introduction With the milestone June 2000 summit in Pyongyang between Republic of Korea (ROK) President Kim Dae Jung and Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) chief Kim Jong Ilthe first meeting between the top leaders of divided Korea since the peninsulas partition in August 1945hopes for an eventual Korean reunification (a cherished and abiding goal for many Koreans on both sides of the de- militarized zone that separates them) have once again received a dramatic stimulus. In the afterglow of this conciliatory get-together between heads of state still officially at war there has been extensive speculation in East Asiaand especially in the ROKabout the sorts of diplomatic formulas that might permit North and South Korea to move toward a peace treaty (finally ending the Korean War) and there- after to a deepening economic and political integration that would finally culminate in peaceful and vol- untary reunification. But if one is to contemplate the prospect of an eventual Korean unification one must consider not only the policies and negotiating frameworks that might one day bring the Korean peo- ple back together but also the disparities in socio-economic development that separate them today. To approach discussion of an eventual reintegration or reunification of the two Koreas in a practi- cal fashion indeed it is absolutely essential to have some sense of the starting points for this prospective journey. We need to know concretely in other words about social and economic conditions in both parts of Korea so that we may have some presentiment of the ...

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