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This is a presentation and an open table discussion of the study focused on exploring causal mechanisms between state-society relations and the emergence of a protomarket economy in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) since the era of “Arduous March (1994-2000)”. Specifically, the study investigates the questions of given current state-society relations, (1) how and under what conditions do various sorts of markets emerge in North Korea, and (2) what factors explain the development of a protomarket economy. The discussion will present the current hypothesis and expected contributions of the study to structural, institutional and political complexities to state-society relations in the DPRK.
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