Haggard's Research Noted in Editorial on Fate of N. Korean People
Is a third-generation monster North Korea’s destiny?
12/19/2011
Editorial Board,
The Washington Post
So no one wanted a “collapse” of the regime, though nothing would have been more in the interest of North Koreans themselves. For in the percentage of his population that starved or went to the gulag, or both, under his command, Mr. Kim ranks with Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot.
Given how closed North Korea keeps its borders, it is impossible to know how many people died in its famine of the 1990s.Click here to read the article.
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Stephan Haggard is the director of the Korea-Pacific Program at IR/PS, where he specializes in the Korean economy. In 2011 Haggard published Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea with co-author Marcus Noland, and writes the "North Korea: Witness to Transformation" blog at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
