Martin, Bradley K.2011-12-032011-12-031993http://hdl.handle.net/10125/21610For more about the East-West Center, see <a href="http://www.eastwestcenter.org/">http://www.eastwestcenter.org/</a>"Based on three visits to North Korea by an American journalist between 1979 and 1992, this report highlights changes from the 1970s, when the North had much to boast about in its comparative level of economic development, to the 1990s when communism's failure at home and abroad have placed the regime in desperate straits."31 p.en-USKorea (North) - Economic conditionsIntruding on the Hermit : glimpses of North KoreaReport