12 A generation of malnourished North Korean children is at risk of sustaining lifelong physical impairment as disease and years of starvation take their toll, according to international relief workers in North Korea. The scale of the impending disaster was revealed in a study conducted by international aid agencies, which details the devastation wrought by more than five years of severe food s...

The paper examines from a recent historical perspective the changing roles of the state in governing and regulating South Korea's market economy. After surveying the scope and nature of statism in the earlier periods of industrialization, the analysis turns to the causes and consequences of the current economic crisis. The paper then explores the broad socioeconomic implications of economic gov...

[1] Using North Korea’s 2009 nuclear test as reference and satellite imagery, we show that the location and yield of North Korea’s 2013 nuclear test can be quickly and accurately determined based on seismic data. North Korea’s 2013 nuclear test site is pinpointed by deriving relative location of North Korea’s 2009 and 2013 nuclear tests and using the previously determined location of the 2009 n...

The hominid fossil and Paleolithic archaeology records from the Korean Peninsula are extensive, but relatively little is known about the Korean human evolutionary record outside this region. The Korean paleoanthropological record is reviewed here in light of major research issues, including the hominid fossil record, relative and chronometric dating, lithic analysis, hominid subsistence, and th...

The goal of this article is to introduce a platform (called Agility Service) that gathers and analyses data coming from both crisis response and crisis field by using the principles of Complex Event Processing. As a crisis situation is an unstable phenomenon (by nature or by effect of the applied response), the crisis response may be irrelevant after a while: lack of resources, arrival of a new...

The seizure of the USS Pueblo, an American intelligence ship, on 23 January 1968 triggered one most acute and dangerous international crises during Cold War. US government comprehensively studied situation concluded that a forceful response to North Korean action was futile, any with use military force fraught unpredictable escalation internationalisation conflict. In addition, President Lyndon...