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The Divided Nations in the International System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Joungwon Alexander Kim  and
Carolyn Campbell Kim
Joungwon Alexander Kim
Affiliation:
Research Fellow (East Asian Legal Studies) at the Law School of Harvard University.
Carolyn Campbell Kim
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School
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With the seating of the representatives of the People's Republic of China, membership in the United Nations system has now become almost universal. The major exception to the general rule of universality is the exclusion of the divided nations: Germany (combined population: 68,000,000), Korea (combined population: 47,000,000), and Vietnam (combined population: 35,000,000).

None of the divided nations hold membership in die United Nations proper, although all three of the Western-affiliated sectors have been given observer status at the UN.

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World Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , July 1973 , pp. 479 - 507
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1973

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** Note: Since this article was written, East Germany has been admitted to UNESCO.

1 The major specialized agencies of the United Nations with which we are concerned include the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the International Development Association (IDA). We have excluded discussion of agencies such as UNICEF which are considered organs of the UN proper, and of minor agencies or those not direcdy affiliated with the United Nations system.

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