Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, with foreword by Amartya Sen [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost
An expansive, statistics-filled look at why 600,000 to a million North Koreans died in the mid-1990s during one of the worst famines of the 20th-century. In spite of so-called government reforms and the push for growing...