February 28, 2011

Pantech Fellow John Everard discusses North Korea’s markets and ruling elite

As the world continues to wonder about the possibility of a regime change, North Korea, in the grip of a record-breaking harsh winter, has asked for international food aid. Does this spell social and political unrest? John Everard, the 2010-2011 Pantech Fellow at the Stanford Korean Studies Program, was quoted recently in the Washington Post and the New York Times, regarding North Korea’s markets and ruling elite perspectives about food distribution within the context of the current situation.

• » Washington Post: Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
• » New York Times: Hardships fail to loosen regime's grip in N. Korea