Stephen Haggard Presents Research on North Korean Regime
Cracks Appearing in the North
07/15/2011
Moon Gwang-lip,
Korea JoongAng Daily
The iron-fist control in North Korea will almost certainly keep any aspect of the Arab Spring from flowering in the communist state, but a pre-eminent American scholar believes the isolated country is witnessing a widening crack between the regime and the public.
Stephan Haggard, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, said at a seminar held by the East Asia Foundation in Seoul yesterday that discontent with the authoritarian regime and the way the country is managed is widespread, in particular among those involved in businesses.
Haggard presented survey findings from “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea,” a 2011 book he co-wrote with another North Korea scholar, Marcus Noland.
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