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Many thanks to David Kilburn in Seoul for alerting me to <BR>
a new RAND monograph on North Korea, unification, usw.<BR>
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Looks interesting - and it's free to download.<BR>
Details and URL below.<BR>
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cheers<BR>
Aidan<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
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http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG333/<BR>
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<B>North Korean Paradoxes<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>Circumstances, Costs, and Consequences of Korean Unification<BR>
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Charles Wolf and Kamil Akramov<BR>
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$20.00 (Paperback, 94 pp.)<BR>
ISBN: 0-8330-3762-5<BR>
MG-333-OSD, ©2005<BR>
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Contents<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Chapter One:<BR>
Preamble: Purpose and Roadmap<BR>
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Chapter Two:<BR>
North Korea: Obscurities and Paradoxes<BR>
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Chapter Three:<BR>
Size, Growth, and Structure of the North Korean Economy<BR>
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How the System Might Unravel: Scenarios for Reunification<BR>
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Chapter Five:<BR>
The Capital Costs of Korean Reunification: Estimation and Management<BR>
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Chapter Six:<BR>
Other Estimates of Reunification Costs<BR>
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Chapter Seven:<BR>
Is Germany’s Reunification Experience Relevant?<BR>
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Chapter Eight:<BR>
Conclusions: Effects on Korean Security Policies and Programs<BR>
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Appendix:<BR>
A Simple Simulation Model for Sizing Korean Reunification Costs<BR>
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