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This means family of wealth. These large conglomerates were first established in South Korea under Park Chung Hee.
What are chaebols?
This means self-reliance. It consists of ideological autonomy, economic self-reliance, and military independence from imperial influences. It has been used to separate North Korea from the rest of the world.
What is Juche?
The famine of the 1990s led to a boom of these.
What are underground markets?
What is employment discrimination against women? (Anything about women being less likely to be employed)
President Moon favored this over the US-ROK alliance.
WHat is inter-Korean relations?
This South Korean intelligence agency was first established under Park Chung Hee and used to overthrow enemies to the president.
What is the KCIA?
This is the North Korean foreign intelligence service, responsible for foreign information collection (spying.)
What is the Reconnaissance General Bureau?
Drug trading, counterfeiting money and cigarettes, and smuggling endangered species are all examples of this, used by North Korea to aid its collapsing economy.
He favored South Korean export driven businesses and modeled the economy after Japanese conglomerates. By normalizing relations with Japan, raising interest rates, and improving tax collection, he resurrected the South Korean economy.
Who is Park Chung Hee?
These to similarities lead to a strong relation ship between the DPRK and China.
What are geopolitical and ideological similarities?
What is Songbun?
Short for operational control, this is the continuing US occupation of South Korea.
What is OPCON?
North Korea's refusal to work with other countries towards denuclearization and human rights have led these to become the go-to policy tool in addressing North Korea.
What are sanctions?
This group of activists work to change the system of government in order to end human suffering in a country. They oppose another similar group who works to aid within the existing structure.
Who are human rights activists? (Other is humanitarians)
All North Korea drew out of these in 2009, it was originally formed by North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, and the United States to work towards denuclearization of the country.
What are the Six-Party Talks?
This uprising was student led. It is the cornerstone to South Korean democracy and ended Syngman Rhee's authoritarian rule.
What is the April 19 Revolution (1960)?
This is one facet of organizational life in North Korea. It is the most prestigious of the public organizations. It also conducts self-criticism sessions, like its counterparts.
What is the Korean Worker's Party?
Lasting from the mid- to late-1990s, this was a period of mass starvation in North Korea. Nearly 2.5 million North Koreans were estimated to have died from mass starvation during this, or around 10% of the population.
What is the Arduous March?
In order to avoid sanctions at ports, North Korea does this.
What is transfers coal and oil from ship-to-ship while at sea?
Another sanction evasion tactic, North Korea rolls these into rolls of fabric to smuggle into foreign countries.
What is counterfeit money?
This is the office and residence of the President of South Korea. It was built under Japanese Imperialism and was once nearly infiltrated by North Korean agents in an attempt to assassinate park Chung Hee.
What is the Blue House?
This massive uprising finally achieved democracy for good in South Korea by forcing Chun Doo Hwan to retire from his authoritarian rule as President.
What is the June Uprising (1987)?
This was named after a fast moving mythical creature and was aimed at constructing a socialist economy as fast as possible through indoctrination to communist ideals in North Korea.
What is the Chollima Movement?
Reduced information costs and greater unity and coordination within the South Korean economy is favorable, but the South Korean economic development model relied heavily on chaebols and on top of increased power of conglomerates and a virtual monopoly, it also led to rampant this.
What is corruption?
This was the highest previous North Korean defector.
Hwang Jang-yop