Haggard and Shirk on Trade between China, N. Korea and S. Korea
China Exerts Influence Nurtured Over Decades
12/20/2011
Edward Wong,
Ocala.com
"...After the Cheonan sinking, most of North Korea's trade with South Korea stopped, making China an even bigger partner.Exact trade figures are difficult to pinpoint. A paper published in December 2010 by the Congressional Research Service estimated that in 2009, exports from North Korea to China increased to $793 million, while Chinese exports to the North slowed slightly to $1.9 billion. Chinese trade and investment undercut the economic sanctions that the United States and other nations imposed on North Korea to try to halt its nuclear program.
The trade can take many forms. Susan Shirk, a former State Department official and professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, said she had spoken with a North Korean man in Pyongyang in September who was conducting state-to-state trade with China..."
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Stephan Haggard is the director of the Korea-Pacific Program at IR/PS, where he specializes in the Korean economy. In 2011 Haggard published Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea with co-author Marcus Noland, with whom he had previously authored Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform. Dr. Haggard writes the "North Korea: Witness to Transformation" blog at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS. She first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since.
From 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.
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