Haggard on N. Korea's Change in Leadership
N. Korea's new leader faces ruinous inheritance
12/21/2011
Simon Martin,
mysinchew.com
SEOUL, December 21, 2011 (AFP) -- Ready or not, North Korea's youthful new leader will inherit an economy in ruins, a malnourished population -- and a political system that effectively rules out life-saving reform.
Kim Jong-Un, the 20-something "great successor" to his late father Kim Jong-Il, had no known military or administrative experience until singled out as heir apparent around three years ago.
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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.
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