Stephan Haggard Quoted on North Korea's Nuclear Deal With U.S.
N. Korea buys time with US nuclear deal
03/01/2012
AFP,
Khaleej Times
North Korea’s new leaders, hungry for food aid ahead of a landmark anniversary, have bought time in a deal with Washington but show no sign of actually renouncing their nuclear bargaining chip, experts say.
Under the deal announced Wednesday, the communist state now led by the young and untested Kim Jong-Un agreed to suspend nuclear and long-range missile tests, and its uranium enrichment programme.
The United States — which analysts said was keen to remove at least one strategic headache in an election year — agreed in return to provide North Korea with 240,000 tonnes of desperately needed food.
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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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