Peterson Institute Working Paper WP 08 – October 2008 Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland Read the paper here Abstract: In the 1990s, 600,000 to 1 million North Koreans, or about 3 to 5 percent of the precrisis population, perished in one of the worst famines of the 20th century. North Korea is once again poised on the … Continue reading Famine in North Korea Redux?