The Great North Korean Famine by Andrew S. Natsios
How much do you really know about North Korea? With the global situation as it is, Americans and others need to understand more about the problems we are facing. The Great North Korean Famine by Andrew S. Natsios may be a source of good information for you.
A terrible famine struck the most reclusive society on earth in 1994. Over the next five years, while the North Korean regime tried to hide the dreadful reality and the international community tried hard not to look, perhaps as many as 3 million people starved to death.
In this powerful, provocative book, Andrew Natsios asks three overarching questions: What do we know about the origins and extent of the famine? Why did donor governments and organizations not do more to help? What are the consequences of the famine for North Korea and the lessons for the international community?
In the search for answers, Natsios supplements the scanty store of published sources by drawing on the testimony of thousands of refugees, on thousands of e-mails he received while heading an NGO effort to aid the victims, and on his own encounters with officials from North Korea as well as from Western governments. The picture he presents is a disturbing one: human misery on a biblical scale, a paranoid regime that sacrificed its own citizens to ideological rigidity and pride, and foreign governments that subordinated humanitarian impulses to political and diplomatic interests.
A compelling and revealing book for specialists and general readers alike, THE GREAT NORTH KOREAN FAMINE takes us not only behind the well-guarded borders of the brutally incompetent "Hermit Kingdom" but also into the policymaking labyrinth where ethics and politics clash in the struggle to shape foreign policy.
About the Author
A senior fellow at the Institute in 1998-99, Andrew Natsios is currently administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and formerly was vice president of World Vision U.S. His previous publications include American Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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And the Wind Blew Cold by Richard M. Bassett, Lewis H. Carlson |
The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot, Yair Reiner |
Avoiding the Apocalypse by Marcus Noland, C. Fred Bergsten |
Disarming Strangers by Leon V. Sigal |
East of Chosin by Roy Edgar Appleman |
Facts Tell by Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea |
From Stalin to Kim Il Sung by Andrei Lankov, A. N. LAN'Kov |
The Great North Korean Famine by Andrew S. Natsios |
In Enemy Hands by Larry Zellers |
Korean Atrocity! by Philip D. Chinnery |
Korean Endgame by Selig S. Harrison |
Korea's Future and the Great Powers by Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Ellings |
Korea's Place in the Sun by Bruce Cumings |
Negotiating on the Edge by Scott Snyder |
The North and South Korean Political Systems by Song Chol Yang, Sung Chul Yang, Song-Ch'ol Yang |
The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 by Charles K. Armstrong |
North Korea and the Bomb by Michael J. Mazarr |
North Korea by Han S. Park - The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom |
North Korea through the Looking Glass by Kong Dan Oh, Ralph C. Hassig, Kongdan Oh |
North Korea Under Communism by Erik Cornell |
North and South Korea by William Dudley |
One Anthropologist, Two Worlds by Choong Soon Kim |
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War by Lewis H. Carlson |
The Two Koreas by Don Oberdorfer |
White Tigers by Ben S. Malcom, Ron Martz