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What would 240,000 tons of U.S. food mean for North Korea?
01/25/2012
Los Angeles Times
The U.S. is cautiously assessing its next steps in reinstating humanitarian aid to North Korea, which has suffered famines after years of failed policies and international sanctions, The Times' John Glionna reports.
In most of North Korea, people almost never eat meat and even a bowl of rice is a rare treat. An entire generation of North Koreans was stunted by malnutrition; one study of defectors who escaped to China found that 18-year-old men were five inches shorter than their South Korean counterparts.
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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, with whom he had previously authored Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform. Dr. Haggard writes the "North Korea: Witness to Transformation" blog at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
