The Old North - Never before in history has a prolonged hunger crisis erupted in an industrialized, urbanized country during peacetime.(North Korea)

From: The World and I | Date: June 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

As this bloody, brutal century comes to a close, it is apparent that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea), which exemplified so many of the tragic, destructive, and ultimately unworkable political tendencies of our era, is itself a colossal failure. The North Korean project has totally failed to accomplish the missions for which it was ostensibly constructed--missions, indeed, on which the DPRK's authority and legitimacy, in large measure, have always been predicated.

Those missions were, first and foremost, unification of the entire Korean ...

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