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North Korean migrants in China : whether illegal migrants, refugees, or human trafficking victims
\"Hyoungah Park interviews fifty-eight North Korean migrants in China and analyzes their stories, exploring why they decided to escape North Korea despite the risks, how they escaped, and their experiences being victimized by human trafficking\"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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Health and healthcare in North Korea: a retrospective study among defectors
Background
To gain insights into the socio-economic and political determinants of ill health and access to healthcare in North Korea.
Methods
A retrospective survey using respondent-driven sampling conducted in 2014–15 among 383 North Korean refugees newly resettling in South Korea, asking about experiences of illness and utilization of healthcare while in North Korea, analyzed according to measures of political, economic and human rights indicators.
Results
Although the Public Health Act claims that North Korea provides the comprehensive free care system, respondents reported high levels of unmet need and, among those obtaining care, widespread informal expenditure. Of the respondents, 55.1% (95%CI, 47.7–63.7%) had received healthcare for the most recent illness episode. High informal costs (53.8%, 95%CI, 45.1–60.8%) and a lack of medicines (39.5%, 95%CI, 33.3–47.1%) were reported as major healthcare barriers resulting in extensive self-medication with narcotic analgesics (53.7%, 95%CI, 45.7–61.2%). In multivariate logistic regressions, party membership was associated with better access to healthcare (Adjusted OR (AOR) = 2.34, 95%CI, 1.31–4.18), but household income (AOR = 0.40, 95%CI 0.21–0.78) and informal market activity (AOR = 0.29, 95%CIs 0.15–0.50) with reduced access. Respondents who could not enjoy political and economic rights were substantially more likely to report illness and extremely reduced access to care, even with life-threatening conditions.
Conclusions
There are large disparities in health and access to healthcare in North Korea, associated with political and economic inequalities. The scope to use these findings to bring about change is limited but they can inform international agencies and humanitarian organizations working in this unique setting.
Journal Article
Teaching English to North Korean refugees with PSCORE: an interview with EFL tutor Christine Pickering
The following interview with Christine Pickering, an instructor of English as a foreign language at Duksung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea, discusses teaching English to North Korean refugees with People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE). A non-profit nongovernmental organization and human rights-national unification initiative, PSCORE was founded in 2006 in Seoul and has an office in Washington, D.C., with support from the U.S. State Department. PSCORE offers a one-on-one education program and free volunteer tutoring in computers, languages, mathematics, and other subjects, serving some 140 North Korean refugees as they adjust to life and employment competition in South Korea. The interviewers thank Mr. Bada Nam, PSCORE secretary general, and Ms. Jeongeun Ahn, PSCORE research manager, for approving the interview. The interview questions were prepared by Alzo David-West, and the interview was conducted in person by Sora Suh on August 1, 2012, at a PSCORE teaching location in Seoul. All personal names of North Korean refugee students have been removed.
Journal Article
Mongolia and the DPRK at Sixty-Five: Ulaanbaatar's Changing Relations with Pyongyang
Article type: Research paper Design/methodology/approach—This article draws on literature, media reports, official Mongolian press releases and statements, and a number of informal interviews and discussions with Mongolian policymakers and politicians. Findings—Mongolia's unique relationship with and access to the DPRK's leadership has primarily proven to be a most valuable asset in boosting Mongolia's profile in the region and the world at large. Whether Mongolia can \"spearhead a regional security mechanism,\" as suggested by both Mongolian politicians and international analysts remains to be seen. Practical implications—As pointed out by a reviewer of this paper: \"the last comprehensive overview of Mongolia's North Korea policy was published in 2006.\" Since 2006, Mongolia has sought a more public DPRK policy culminating in a high profile visit by the Mongolian president to Pyongyang in 2013 on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. This article provides a timely overview of the Mongolia-DPRK relations until 2013. Originality/value—The article contributes to the much under-researched field of DPRK-Mongolia relations. The originality and value lie in the subject and above mentioned interviews and discussions with Mongolian politicians.
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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
Escape from the Gulag
\"A series of interviews with North Korean refugees and aid workers along the China-North Korea border provides glimpses of a harrowing network of labour camps that house petty criminals and defectors in the reclusive country...Though there are no independent sources available to verify the accounts, their consistency, backed by circumstantial evidence, lends them considerable credibility.\" These interviews recount the conditions of these gulags, where over one third of the inmates die in captivity. China's policy in dealing with these refugees is also discussed.
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