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<span style=" font-family:'Arial'; font-size: 12pt;">Dear all,<br>
I take the liberty to forward this link to a short opinion piece I wrote on the matter of food aid to North Korea:<br>
<a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110706000882">http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110706000882</a><br>
This is part of a series of contributions. A very interesting recent debate on the same topic can be found at Cankor:<br>
<a href="http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/category/human-factor/food-aid/">http://vtncankor.wordpress.com/category/human-factor/food-aid/</a><br>
As you see, opinions differ. In fact, the issue is tricky: help starving people at the price of propping up the regime? Bring down the regime at the price of massive famine deaths? In the end, it is a political decision. But it is one that affects human lifes, so that we as scholars and opinion-leaders have a huge responsibility here. The latest decision by the European Commission to resume food aid (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/world/asia/04union.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/world/asia/04union.html?_r=1</a>) is a hopeful sign from my perspective. Not everybody looks at it that way, though.<br>
I am grateful for any comments, including critical ones. <br>
All the best,<br>
Rudiger<br>
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PS: As this list started out as an AKSE forum: At the membership meeting of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe in Moscow on June 19th, I have been elected as AKSE Secretary and given the task to organize the next AKSE conference in 2013 in Vienna. For more information, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.akse.uni-kiel.de/">http://www.akse.uni-kiel.de/</a> which will be updated shortly. I will send out a message through this list as soon as the CFP is ready.<br>
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<span style=" font-size: 8pt; color: #c0c0c0;"><i>-- <br>
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudiger Frank<br>
Chair of East Asian Economy and Society<br>
Secretary, Association for Korean Studies in Europe<br>
Deputy Head, Department of East Asian Studies<br>
University of Vienna<br>
Department of East Asian Studies<br>
Spitalgasse 2 Hof 2.3<br>
1090 Vienna<br>
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