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Sovereignty, Endurance, and the Elusive Search for Humanitarian Space in North Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frederick M. Burkle Jr.*
Affiliation:
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, USA Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice, Monash University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia

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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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