Professor Stephan Haggard
Article reports "Obama to discuss vexing N. Korean behavior with S. Korean leader"
11/19/2009
Blaine Harden,
The Washington Post
SEOUL -- For the Obama administration, North Korea has followed a familiar script. It has made trouble, exploding a nuclear device. It has made nice, inviting U.S. officials to visit. And it has made a mess of growing food, needing handouts from the rich countries it threatens.
President Obama, in a meeting here on Thursday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, will focus on North Korea's vexingly repetitive behavior and discuss strategies to lure the isolated state into giving up its nuclear program.
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Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies and director of the Korea-Pacific Program at IR/PS. His work with co-author Marcus Noland, titled Famine in North Korea, has received credit in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.
