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The Study on the New Recipient States Model and North Korea

LeeChoWon 1

1중앙대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The events of September 11, 2001 taught us that fragile states, like Afghanistan, can pose as great a danger to our worldwide security as strong states. Poverty may not turn people intoterrorists, but poverty, weak institutions and corruption can make fragile states vulnerable to terrorist networks and cycle of mediocre. As result of that, nowadays the term of ‘fragile state’is more useful concept that it of ‘Least Developed Countries’ in world politics. Nowadays international official development assistance institutions such as, the World Bank Groups, OECD/DAC, UN, and Asian Development Bank are trying to recipient states with grants or confessional funds for development assistance. Nevertheless, such assistance targeted at national development is being hindered for various reasons. North Korea, has difficulties in accessing these grant funds due to problems in the provision of standards. Can North Korea has the status as fragile state which has been recognized as recipient state nowadays? This study compared various different models with the World Bank or OECD/DAC models. It focused on some difficult partnership states such as in North Korea, Myanmar and Zimbabwe. This model may enable the transfer of ODA funds to difficult partnership states by using the ODA tool. This thesis recommends that because North Korea is a sort of ‘difficult partnership states’, South Korea must not close thechannel for North Korea according to OECD/DAC tips. Maintaining channel can help North Korea not to slide into deadlock and system breakdown. And this thesis also recommends a new paradigm for helping North Korea. That is the way to utilize the Cooperative Mutual Fund for South and North Korea considering with ODA of OECD

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