HIS102Y1 Lecture : North Korea & Modern Japan
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North korea: after korean war (june 25, 1950 july 27, 1953), kim il-sung purges his rivals and succeeds in identifying korean communism with himself, kim shifts his positions vis- -vis moscow and peking. China was demanding a great effort from its people. June 1960 the ussr stops all aid to the prc and calls home thousands of soviet experts working in china: 1962- mao denounces the government of the ussr as a right-wing dictatorship. Heavy expenditures on defence continued priority assigned to heavy industry creating a severe shortage of daily commodities and lowered living standards. Premiership was changed to a presidency, kim il sung now has control of all government agencies. Republic of korea: population: 24,457,492 (july 2011 est. , gdp per capita: (purchasing power parity)- (2009 est. , gdp of sk- ,000, military expenditures percent of gdp- 33. 9:2. 8. International relations: collapse of the soviet union and dissolution of the ussr in early 1990s, left china as north.