North korea: Home science seems best

Tuberculosis in North Korea.

Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supporting Online Material Induction of Colonic Regulatory T Cells by Indigenous Clostridium Species Koji Atarashi, Takeshi Tanoue, Tatsuichiro Shima, Akemi Imaoka, Tomomi Kuwahara, Yoshika Momose, Genh Sho Yamasaki, Takashi Saito, Yusuke Ohba, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shohei Hori, Ivaylo I. Ivan Kikuji Itoh, and Kenya Honda Science 21 January 2011: 337-341...

Medical education of north Korea.

Intensive home hemodialysis: the best treatment in the best system.

Sir, With great interest, we read the recently published editorial comment by Dr Piccoli entitled ‘The never-ending search for the perfect dialysis. Should we move from the best treatment to the best system?’ [1]. We are convinced that intensive haemodialysis (HD) may be the best dialysis treatment in the best system. Not only in specific circumstances such as pregnancy, after non-renal solid o...

Can Economic Theory Demystify North Korea?

The starting point of this paper is the assumption that North Korea is de facto a well defined nation-state with a national economy and inhabited by individuals that bear the same basic economic and social characteristics as individuals elsewhere. Despite the obvious specifics of the economic system and the institutional structure of that country, standard economic theory should be applicable t...

North Korea: From Failing towards Reforming State?

According to most criteria, North Korea would be classified as a failing state. More often than not the country’s destiny has been predicted as collapse, chaos, and in the end, absorption by South Korea. However, so far the Kim Jong-il regime proved viable and cultivated the art to survive within a globalizing world without opening up. More recently, North Korean authorities appeared to revive ...