The Black Box: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea

Analysis, Health, Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons
, by In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the “black box” of North Korea and draws critical lessons for the possible reunification of Korea after many decades of division... 2024, Columbia University Press "[The Black Box] calls on privileged insights into North Korea. Peace,…

UN Health and Labor Organizations Rank North Korea Worst on Work-Related Disease and Injury

Health, Human Rights
, by The most striking feature of the data for North Korea in both the overall number of work-related deaths and in the number who suffered death from stroke as a result of overwork is that the number went from one of the worst in the world to decisively the worst of all UN member states. In almost every other country in the world over the period of this study, the death rate from workplace disease and injury declined.