International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea A Country Left Behind with Cloaked Society

• Main Author: Lim, Sojin
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research on Korea
• Subjects: Armoured Combat Vehicles; Asian; Ballistic Missile Programmes; Cee Country; Civil Society; Digital Economy; Economic assistance; Economic assistance > Korea (North); Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Famine; Fourth Nuclear Test; Fragile States; Fragility Index; FSI; Human rights; Human rights > Korea (North); Humanitarian Aid; ICBM Launch; Interdisciplinary studies; International Aid; International Relations; KEDO; Kim Regime; Loan Aid; Marketisation; Nonfiction; North Korea's Nuclear Programme; North Korean; North Korean Defectors; North Korean Regime; North Korean Society; Nuclear Programme; Ordinary North Koreans; Political Economy; Political Science; Politics; Politics and government; Public administration; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Sanctions; Social and ethical issues; Social discrimination and social justice; Social groups, communities and identities; Social services and welfare, criminology; Social welfare and social services; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; State Capacity Development; Street Level Bureaucrats; Sustainable development; Sustainable development > Korea (North); Trade & Tariffs; UNSC Resolution; USD Million; World; Fragility Index; Armoured Combat Vehicles; KEDO; Ballistic Missile Programmes; Civil Society; Fragile States; Famine; UNSC Resolution; State Capacity Development; Humanitarian Aid; UN; Street Level Bureaucrats; Loan Aid; FSI; North Korean Society; Marketisation; Digital Economy; North Korean Regime; North Korea's Nuclear Programme; North Korean Defectors; Sanctions; North Korean; Cee Country; USD Million; Nuclear Programme; Ordinary North Koreans; Kim Regime; Fourth Nuclear Test; International Aid; ICBM Launch
• ISBN: 9781000919615; 1000919617; 9781032486895; 1032486899; 1032486902; 9781032486901; 9781000919653; 1003390285; 9781003390282; 100091965X
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003390282

This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the general population to present an argument for sustainable development. Focusing on the human rights of North Koreans and presenting a case for the use of aid as a provision for social change, it explores an alternative narrative to the existing long-drawn-out rhetoric of ‘denuclearisation-first’. The book’s scope includes evaluations of the causes of international sanctions and their impact, the Kim regime’s mitigation of sanctions through marketisation and a digital economy as well as barriers to aid monitoring and the reason for the absence of any mass anti-regime movement. It also posits that North Korea is a fragile state but cloaked by the image of a strong regime. The book succinctly demonstrates that the key to unlocking the potential of North Korea’s ‘cloaked society’ does not lie in sanctions, but is to be found in engagement with development aid. As such it will appeal to students of Korean Studies, Development Studies, Asian Politics and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.