Students march past the giant bronze statue of late Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea

From the August 2003 issue

North Korea's endgame

There is little doubt that North Korea will fall; what matters is how. The manner of the regime's demise depends on how others handle it. A gentle transition is possible, but so is an East German-style collapse, or, even, a cataclysmic war

By Aidan Foster-Carter

August 19, 2003

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The author is an honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern Korea at Leeds University

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