The Possibility of a Crisis in North Korea in 2012

Cho Han Bum   2012-01-11 / 7 p.

The major commonality between the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the recent Jasmine Revolution is that almost no one predicted either event. The communist bloc possessed a formidable research force and had performed many long-term studies, but these all tended to cling to the belief that socialist systems would remain unchanged and thus failed to anticipate the collapse that began in the late 1980s...