OBJECTIVE We investigated the prevalence of insomnia and its clinical characteristics in North Korean refugees. METHODS North Korean refugees living in South Korea (48 males, 129 females; mean age 38.22±12.24 years) and South Koreans (112 males, 203 females; mean age 39.48±10.32 years) completed the following questionnaires: the Self-reported Questionnaire on Insomnia, Center for Epidemiologi...

Dr. James Clay Moltz is Assistant Director and Research Professor at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he also directs the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Project. He was the first Editor of The Nonproliferation Review (1993-98) and is co-editor of The North Korean Nuclear Program: Security, Strategy, and New Perspectives...

In this chapter, we analyze empirically the existence and extent of financial contagion in the East Asian crisis. We define financial contagion as a significant increase in correlation of financial variables after controlling fundamentals and common shocks, and we develop an autoregressive model to measure contagion. In particular, we attempt to exclude the common effects of the crisis in South...

Health problems after a nuclear crisis are aninteresting issue in medicine. After the recentJapanese nuclear crisis, several health issuesunderwent monitoring. There are few considerationson mucocutaneous diseases. Indeed, there is nodoubt that the skin and mucocutaneous issues arethe main organs affected by leaked radiations. It isimportant to take care of mucocutaneous lesionsin acute radiati...

North Korea suffered from severe famine in the mid-1990s; this impacted many areas, including people's transnational movement, child growth, and mortality. This review carefully examined nutritional status trends of children in North Korea using published reports from national nutrition assessment surveys. Nutritional adaptation of North Korean child refugees living in South Korea was also stud...

BACKGROUND The number of North Korean adolescent defectors entering South Korea has been increasing. The health behavior, including mental health-related behavior, and factors associated with depression in North Korean adolescent defectors residing in South Korea were investigated. METHODS Data obtained from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey (2011-2014) dataset were utilized. In ...

OBJECTIVE Embitterment is a persistent feeling of being let down or insulted, feeling like a "loser", or feeling revengeful but helpless. In South Korea, social injustice experienced during rapid industrial development and protracted unemployment during the Asian economic crisis may lead to strong feelings of embitterment. North Korean defectors and victims of industrial disasters may also expe...

Introduction The Korean crisis in 1997 illustrated again the fact that large capital inflows can be a mixed blessing. Liberalization of the capital account in Korea was associated with massive private capital inflows totaling about $120 billion from 1992 through mid 1997. The reversal of these flows in the second half of 1997 and throughout 1998 was even more dramatic and generated a devastatin...