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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=421543902-13072004>Dear
Tracy,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=421543902-13072004>This
has been discussed at great length at the NKZone <A
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<P><FONT size=2>Best regards,<BR><BR>Dr. Andrei Lankov,<BR>China and Korea
Centre,<BR>Faculty of Asian Studies,<BR>Australian National University,<BR>ACT,
0200, Australia<BR>fax 61) 2) 6125-3144</FONT> </P></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws
[mailto:Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Tracy<BR><B>Sent:</B> 13 èþëÿ 2004 ã. 8:38<BR><B>To:</B> Korean Studies
Discussion List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [KS] US North Korea GI
Defector<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV>Dear Korea Studies List,</DIV>
<DIV>A few days ago Reuters reported a man being reunited with his
wife in Indonesia. He was a GI who is thought to have defected to North
Korea during the Korean War. Has anyone heard of this man? Is
anything else known about him and his family? </DIV>
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<DIV>see website: <A
href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5614720§ion=news">http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5614720§ion=news</A></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>Thank you.</DIV>
<DIV>Tracy Stober</DIV>
<DIV>University of Washington</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Afostercarter@aol.com</I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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FAMILY="SERIF">Has anyone done any work on North Korean aid<BR>to Africa, or
know anyone who has?<BR><BR>In the 1970s and 1980s the DPRK had
embassies<BR>all over the continent. Aid projects in a range of
<BR>countries - Guinea, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and many more -<BR>ranged from
the practical and useful (agriculture, construction)<BR>to the more dubious
(military training, organizing mass games,<BR>building statues). It must
have cost Pyongyang a fortune. Most of <BR>the embassies have shut, but a
little of this may still continue.<BR><BR>We think now of North Korea as an
aid recipient.<BR>It used to be a donor also. This chapter in the heyday
of<BR>tricontinental solidarity is now history, but should not
go<BR>unrecorded. It would make a fascinat! ing PhD topic,<BR>either in
general or for particular countries.<BR>One model could be Philip Snow's
<I>The Star Raft</I>,<BR>which looks at China's encounter with
Africa.<BR><BR><BR>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
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ISDN: +44(0) 1274 589280<BR>Email:
afostercarter@aol.com
website: www.aidanfc.net<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>
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