Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
With the outbreak of famine in the mid-1990s, the DPRK has become a recipient of humanitarian assistance. Immediately after the inception of aid flows, an extensive diversification of donors arose. The most important donor duo was the Republic of Korea and the USA. Japan, Russia, and the European U...
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2014-06-01
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With the outbreak of famine in the mid-1990s, the DPRK has become a
recipient of humanitarian assistance. Immediately after the inception of aid
flows, an extensive diversification of donors arose. The most important
donor duo was the Republic of Korea and the USA. Japan, Russia, and the
European Union all had important roles in the matter, and Switzerland had
a very specific role in it. Meanwhile, the Chinese assistance obtained an
entirely unique position. There was a temporary suspension of China’s
assistance in the mid-1990s, but then it started again, and today, China is
the DPRK’s patron. The aim of this article is to provide a comparison of the
donors’ strategies and to outline the main trends of the assistance to the
DPRK in the framework of the period of 1995–2012. The strategies of
donorship have divergent tendencies, and in most of the cases, the donors
preferred to make a strong effort to reach their political goals in the DPRK
while providing humanitarian aid to it.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7cb5533d053e4c2fb550eb11c59115a82023-01-07T06:14:56ZengInstitute of International Relations PragueCzech Journal of International Relations0323-18442570-94292014-06-01492Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of KoreaLenka Kudláčová With the outbreak of famine in the mid-1990s, the DPRK has become a recipient of humanitarian assistance. Immediately after the inception of aid flows, an extensive diversification of donors arose. The most important donor duo was the Republic of Korea and the USA. Japan, Russia, and the European Union all had important roles in the matter, and Switzerland had a very specific role in it. Meanwhile, the Chinese assistance obtained an entirely unique position. There was a temporary suspension of China’s assistance in the mid-1990s, but then it started again, and today, China is the DPRK’s patron. The aim of this article is to provide a comparison of the donors’ strategies and to outline the main trends of the assistance to the DPRK in the framework of the period of 1995–2012. The strategies of donorship have divergent tendencies, and in most of the cases, the donors preferred to make a strong effort to reach their political goals in the DPRK while providing humanitarian aid to it. https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/295DPRKhumanitarian aiddevelopment assistancedonorshipUSARepublic of Korea |
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| title | Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| title_full | Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| title_fullStr | Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
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| title_short | Donors of Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| title_sort | donors of humanitarian and development assistance to democratic people s republic of korea |
| topic | DPRK humanitarian aid development assistance donorship USA Republic of Korea |
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