Table of Contents

Roots of the crisis; inside North Korea - prefamine indicators; the hidden famine; surviving the famine - along the Chinese border; the political economy of the famine; the diplomacy of the famine; the politics of the famine - the battle in Washington; a great famine?; the military and political consequences of the famine; what is to be done?

Reviews

In The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy, Andrew S. Natsios (American Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) sneaks past the physical and media barricades the North Korean dictatorship hides behind to explore the tragic events that killed approximately three million people between 1994 and 1999. As a senior administrator of an NGO, Natsios spearheaded an international humanitarian effort to stem the famine's spread but was met with ignorance and indifference by many governments and organizations. Culling information from the testimonies of refugees, from his experiences with North Korean and Western officials, and from his considerable grasp of the interplay between the realms of international relief and foreign policy, Natsios delivers a portrait of an unfeeling North Korean government and the politics of humanitarian aid. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.