Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas

Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas

- Speaker: Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics

- Date : July 13, 2000.

"In economic terms, North Korea actually looks more like some parts of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe than it does China or Vietnam. As a consequence, the sort of problems that North Korea may encounter if and when it begins reform may be more like the sort of problems faced by the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe than those faced by China and Vietnam...”