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Marching through suffering
Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.
These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than as a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression,Marching Through Sufferingpositions personal history as key to the interpretation of political violence.
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ADAPTING TO DEMOCRACY: IDENTITY AND THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS
Defection from North Korea to South Korea has increased dramatically, but little is known of its political consequences. Do North Korean defectors successfully adopt democratic norms, and if so, what factors aid this process? Through a novel survey of defectors, I find that national identification plays a significant role in motivating their fledgling sense of democratic obligation. Greater feelings of national unity with South Koreans lead to a stronger duty to vote and otherwise contribute to the democratic state. This effect is more powerful than that of conventional contractual factors, on which most state resettlement policies are based, and is surprising given that defectors’ nationalist socialization mostly took place under the authoritarian North. The findings suggest the need to reconsider integration approaches toward North Korean defectors and similarly placed refugees elsewhere.
Journal Article
Social inclusion and length of stay as determinants of health among North Korean refugees in South Korea
Objectives:
Although the number of North Koreans seeking asylum in South Korea has increased notably in recent years, studies on the health of North Koreans residing in South Korea are rare. This study examined the roles of social inclusion and the length of stay on refugees’ self-rated health.
Methods:
Employing a data set (n = 1,111) created by the South Korean government, we conduct multivariate logistic regression analyses.
Results:
We found that degree of familiarity with South Koreans, employed as an indicator of social inclusion, was significantly associated with North Korean refugees’ self-rated health status. Further, self-rated health seemed to be poorest when the duration of stay in South Korea reached about 2–4 years. Self-rated health outcomes improved after this time period.
Conclusions:
Social inclusion through close contacts with South Koreans and overcoming an arduous adaptation period, as well as addressing economic deprivation, are important in promoting the health of North Korean refugees in South Korea. These findings should be considered in crafting better resettlement and training programs for this population.
Journal Article
Changing South Korea: Issues of Identity and Reunification in Formulating the Australia-Korea Security Policy, Foreign Policy, and Wider Relationship
This article argues that Australia must consider the changing attitudes of young people in South Korea toward nationalism, identity and unification when formulating Australian-Korean security and foreign policy. Through an in-depth examination of the South Korean youth and student movement and young people's changing attitudes to North Korea and unification, I suggest that a change in the nature of nationalism has occurred - a shift from a nationalism based on a peninsula-wide concept of nation, to the emergence of a South Korean nationalism. This has important consequences for policy-makers trying to understand events in South Korea, the Korean peninsula, and wider Northeast Asian region. The evidence for this article comes from the analysis of survey data from the mid-1980s to the present day. For the most part, the survey data used in the analysis is translated and presented in English for the first time. The surveys are informed by face to face interviews with over 60 South Korean students from across the country. These took place in 2009 and 2010 during fieldwork carried out by the author. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Journal Article
Korea, North and South: Venn Diagram
one illustration of a venn diagram of North and South Korea
Web Resource
Nothing Left to Lose
\"Although there are an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 North Koreans on the lam in China, only about 2,000 of them are expected to make it to South Korea--and freedom--[in 2003].\" (Current Events) Learn why so many North Koreans risk their lives for the chance of a life of freedom in South Korea and find out how the transition affects North Korean children as they integrate into South Korean society. The lives of several students attending the Hannuri School, \"an after-school program to help 13- to 18-year-old North Korean refugees with their schoolwork\" are profiled and a Venn diagram activity is included.
Magazine Article
The North Korean defector
Kim Hyuk, 31, can divide his life into two parts-one for each side of the divided Korean Peninsula. These days, he lives in a small studio apartment 50 miles south of Seoul. He holds a master's degree in public policy and gives speeches about his experience on behalf of the South Korean Ministry of Unification. But growing up in Chongjin, a factory town in North Korea's frigid northeast, he was a street beggar and illicit cross-border trader, dashing into China to pick up iron and jewelry that he could sell back home. When Kim escaped for good on Christmas Eve 2000, crossing the Tumen River, he left what remained of his family and possessions and began a perilous 353-day journey through China to Mongolia, whose border police ferry refugees to freedom in South Korea. Adapted from the source document.
Magazine Article