<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">Dear Listmembers,<BR>
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A. Please may I draw your attention to what I believe is<BR>
a unique resource on North Korea, now at last available.<BR>
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This is a book by the late Andrew Holloway, who lived for <BR>
a year in Pyongyang in the late 1980s. Despite the lapse of time,<BR>
I believe his perspective and insights remain fresh and important.<BR>
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I am not aware of any similar primary source of this kind in English.<BR>
(Erik Cornell's recently published <I>North Korea under Communism <BR>
</I>[RoutledgeCurzon, 2002] is only partly autobiographical, covering a<BR>
period even longer ago [1975-77]).<BR>
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I introduce Andrew's book at: http://www.aidanfc.net/pyongyang.html<BR>
The book itself begins at: http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang_1.html<BR>
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The rest of my website - constructed by Andrew's son Ross, to whom<BR>
eternal thanks for his patience - may, I fear, be of less interest to this audience:<BR>
driven as it is, regrettably, more by the dictates of commerce than scholarship.<BR>
But it has some rants, ruminations, and even limericks (not Korea-related).<BR>
<BR>
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B. May I also mention a couple of other newer writings, which Listmembers<BR>
might not otherwise run across:<BR>
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1. The latest of five papers I have written for WriteNet for the UN High<BR>
Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has just been posted at:<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/rsd?search=coi&source=WRITENET <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">(This is an index; then click on the date [1 May 2003]). This paper is<BR>
in fact more about the current North Korea nuclear crisis in general,<BR>
than refugee issues per se.<BR>
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2. A similar but briefer essay on the North Korean question is due to<BR>
appear in the July issue of <I>Prospect. </I>For those who don't know it, this <BR>
is a monthly mag which styles itself as "Britain's Intelligent Conversation".<BR>
A bit like <I>Encounter</I> of old, but without the CIA connection...<BR>
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Best wishes<BR>
Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University<BR>
17 Birklands Road, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3BY, UK<BR>
tel: +44(0) 1274 588586 mobile: +44(0) 7970 741307 <BR>
fax: +44(0) 1274 773663 ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>
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