Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a reporter's take on the problem: the more publicity the better. However, Carter Eckert, professor of Korean History and the director of the Korea Institute, has a different take. The North is not being all that quiet, he stresses...
...know that there is a famine and that it is pretty bad. However, citing the South Korean objections to the North's strict handling of the media, Carter adds that reporters "see only what the North Korean officials want them...
There is a parallel that we are meant to keep in the back of our minds whenever we think about the North Korean famine: the African famine of the 1980s. The press mentions it here and there, tucked in the middle of articles...
...North Korean situation is neither easy to understand nor to empathize with. Who is playing whom? This story may be about the United States' wanting to act out its destiny, to play the hero...
...other hand, it may be about a privileged elite at the heart of the North Korean government--insulated from the famine--working to stay in the power. Is this story really about communism, about a government in denial that its dream is collapsing, or is it about naked power...