Breaking News: Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland on N Korea - US Agreement
Food aid for suspension of nuclear weapons testing and enrichment
02/29/2012
LA Times
Hunger is a known menace in North Korea: In most of the country, even a bowl of rice is a rare treat. North Korea and the U.S. are poised to strike a deal that would bring 240,000 metric tons of food aid to the impoverished country if it suspends nuclear weapons tests and enrichment.
What would all that food really mean for North Korea? Here's a quick look.
Experts Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland have estimated that North Korea has been falling below the minimum grain supplies needed for each person to have enough food, as the graph below shows.
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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 also writes for the Peterson Institute for International Economics blog.
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