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November 28, 1997 The following is a report of the meeting of the Expanded Senior Panel of the Limited Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone for Northeast Asia, held in Moscow October 1-3, 1997. The meeting was sponsored by the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy of the Ivan Allen College of Georgia Tech University. The report […]
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This essay was originally prepared for the conference on “Korea In The 21st Century: In Search for Peace, Unification and Prosperity,” held at Chongju University, ROK, June 2-3, 1997, and appeared in the summer 1997 issue of “The Economics of Korean Unification.” The author, Young Whan Kihl, is a professor at Iowa State University. Kihl argues that the foremost political problem of the DPRK today is the survival of the Kim Jong-il regime. Ultimately, Kim will need to build his own charisma via achievement-oriented performance. The strategic goal of the DPRK continues to be forcing US troop withdrawal from the ROK, so as to enable the DPRK to realize its dream of Korean reunification in its own terms, i.e., the communization of the ROK by whatever means are deemed necessary, including the use of force.
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Argues that balancing the need for industrial development and environmental protection will require more than establishing green working groups or tightening anti-pollution standards; it will require a fundamental shift from a policy of pollution command-and-control to a system of environmental management as the basis of a regional sustainable development vision.
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