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New face of North Korean drug use: upsurge in methamphetamine abuse across the northern areas of North Korea / Lankov, Andrei; Kim, Seok-hyang   Journal Article
Lankov, Andrei Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
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Surviving the hard times: adjustment strategies of industrial workers in a post-crisis North Korean city / Lankov, Andrei; Kwak, In-ok; Kim, Seok-hyang; Cho, Choong-bin   Journal Article
Lankov, Andrei Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract The article deals with the everyday survival strategies employed by the workers of (largely non-functioning) state enterprises in post-socialist North Korea, and with the social changes this group has dealt with in the last two decades. It also compares these trends with the experiences of post-socialist Eastern Europe. In the 1990s the economic role of the North Korean state decreased dramatically. Official wages could no longer guarantee the physical survival of the populace, so workers from state industries engaged in a multitude of economic activities which were (and still are) largely related to the booming "second economy." These activities include private farming, employment in semi-legal and illegal private workshops, trade and smuggling, as well as small-scale business activities. The choice of a particular activity depends on a number of factors, of which network capital is especially significant. Income is also augmented by the illegal use of state resources and widespread theft of material and spare parts from state-owned factories. As a result of these changes, the industrial working class of North Korea, once a remarkably homogenous group, has fragmented, and its members have embarked on vastly different social trajectories.
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Unexpected results of a political pilgrimage: Yim Su-gyong's 1989 trip to North Korea and changes in North Koreans' worldview / Kim, Seok-hyang; Lankov, Andrei   Article
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Summary/Abstract This article deals with the impact on the North Korean domestic situation produced by the 1989 visit to Pyongyang by Yim Su-gyong, a young student activist from South Korea. Going there in defiance of South Korea's official policy, she was enthusiastically welcomed by the North Korean authorities, who strove to present her as an embodiment of the alleged revolutionary spirit of South Korean youngsters. However, in the long run Yim's trip produced totally different results. The North Korean audience, fascinated with Yim Su-gyong and quite attentive to her behavior, was able to read hints that indicated the official picture of South Korean life as presented by the North Korean media was wrong. Contrary to the authorities' initial expectations, the trip made North Koreans more skeptical of the officially approved worldview.
Key Words North Korea  Political Tourism  Yim Su-gyong 
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