Stephan Haggard on Food Aid and N. Korea
Let them eat yellowcake
01/14/2012
Banyan,
The Economist
WHEN even the North Korean press admits it, things must be pretty bad. The traditional "joint new year editorial" carried in all the country's newspapers flourished the usual upbeat slogan: "Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding, true to the instructions of the great General Kim Jong Il." It did, however, allude to the plight in which the great general left his people when he died last month: "the food problem is a burning issue in building a thriving country." North Korea is hungry again.
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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.
