What are some of the major causes of the famine in North Korea? The famine in DPRK is the result of the cumulative effects of a fractured economic infrastructure and inadequate food production. Over ...

North Korea expects food, cash and new leverage in exchange for sending troops to Russia - A lot is at stake for North ...

The North’s nuclear forces have been the focus of global concern. But its conventional military is vast and empowered — even ...

North Korea may be facing another food emergency. If it develops, the world needs to learn lessons from the mid-1990s famine in the country, say Stephan Haggard & Marcus Noland. During the 1990s, ...

Council on Foreign Relations. "Two Koreas, Two Development Policies." Association for Asian Studies. "North Korea’s 1990s ...

During the famine in the mid-1990s, grain was hard to come by, he said. North Korea monitoring groups have reported increases in the prices of rice and corn — the two most important staples ...

Thousands of other young women did the same. "The famine resulted in a particularly vulnerable time for women in North Korea," says Jieun Baek, author of North Korea's Hidden Revolution.

His new book, co-authored with Stephan Haggard, Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aids, and Reform presents a comprehensive account of the famine to date, examining not only the origins and aftermath of ...

According to recent government data, North Korea’s current economic situation could be as bad as the Arduous March in the ...

(Zubina Ahmed/CBC) Lee says she lived through famine in North Korea, and finding food was often her only focus. "The purpose of life in North Korea for me was to survive. So every day after I ...

He says North Korea got into ostrich farming during the famine in the 1990s when between 500,000 and two million North Koreans are thought to have died from starvation. North Korea continues to suffer ...

In the 1990s, a devastating famine is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. China is almost certainly North Korea's largest aid donor but the extent of that support is difficult ...