The Great North Korean Famine:Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy

Authors

Lyle J. Goldstein

Abstract

Though not linked to the tragedy of 11 September 2001, North Korea rose once again to near the top of the list of likely U.S. adversaries with President George W. Bush’s association of Pyongyang with a so-called axis of evil. This fine book by Andrew Natsios should be required reading for those contemplating the various policy dilemmas that confront the U.S. on the Korean Peninsula. Natsios provides an eloquent and informed narrative of evil as it exists today in North Korea—the slow and tortured death of millions of North Korean citizens by starvation as a direct result of the regime’s totalitarian nature and its failure to reform disastrous economic policies. But the author also demonstrates that the North Korean quandary defies simple solution

Recommended Citation

Goldstein, Lyle J. (2002) "The Great North Korean Famine:Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy," Naval War College Review: Vol. 55: No. 3, Article 9.
Available at: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol55/iss3/9