Professor Stephan Haggard's research quoted in article about North Korea
North Korea faces fear of famine as food shortages mount
Jun 03, 2008
By By Tim Johnson , McClatchy Newspapers
Food rations across much of North Korea have been slashed, and the country's 1.1 million strong military reportedly halted major exercises so that soldiers could help raise crops, according to reports out of South Korea.
After a three-year hiatus, the Bush administration is resuming food aid to North Korea, and a U.S. freighter carrying bulk grain is now sailing to make the first delivery from some 500,000 metric tons of food assistance that Washington in May promised the Kim Jong Il regime over the next year.
But experts said the bulk of U.S. food aid will arrive too late to help critical pre-harvest food shortages that intensify by the day and are likely to remain bad until August harvests.
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