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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.
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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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2009 , pp. 161 - 165
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