Stephan Haggard's New Book Featured in The Wall Street Journal
Marcus Noland on NK’s Refugees and Economy
01/12/2011
Evan Ramstad,
The Wall Street Journal
Only a handful of outside economists spend the enormous time required to delve into the mysteries of North Korea.
Marcus Noland is one of them. With his research and writing partner Stephen Haggard, Mr. Noland has written several books about the North, including a definitive study on the famine that gripped the country from the mid- to late-1990s and resulted in the death of at least 1 million people and perhaps upwards of 2 million.
In a new book published this week, called “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea,” Messrs. Noland and Haggard produce the results of interviews they and their researchers conducted with more than 1,600 North Koreans who fled the country. The interviews took place from 2004 to 2008 and involved people who left North Korea as early as 1991.
The book documents the remarkable changes inside the North through the eyes of people who lived through them. Of course, it’s a group that holds negative views of North Korea. But the economists do their best to take that into account.
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