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Skeptics, meanwhile, see North Korea's current eagerness for investment as another in Kim's endless series of feints designed to keep his opponents off balance--and the foreign aid handouts flowing so the country stays fed. "The North Korean economic approach has always been to extract resources from outsiders," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The North Korean Economy. "It's like what they say about champagne: In success, you feel like you deserve it. In failure, you need...
...party talks in Beijing in late September, North Korea agreed to dismantle all its nuclear facilities and disclose the scope of its nuclear program by the end of the year in exchange for 950,000 tons of fuel oil or the equivalent in economic aid. And at this month's summit in Pyongyang between Kim and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun, the two nations agreed to pursue a formal peace treaty to officially end the Korean War and made broad, if vague, plans for increased economic cooperation...
International masters students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) will become eligible this September for large-scale financial aid from the school, for the first time joining their American classmates who have long received such assistance, Dean Alan A. Altshuler announced last week...
Around half of the 160-165 international masters students estimated to arrive at the school next year will receive aid similar to that given American students under the plan, according to Altshuler. International students make up approximately 30 percent of the GSD student body. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Altshuler said he hoped this initiative would be a starting point for expanding aid for international students to a goal of full parity with their American counterparts, who currently receive regular grant assistance from the school...