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A constantly recurring question is how decades of chronic food insecurity interspersed with food emergencies and even outright famine may affect the long-term physical and mental health of the North Korean people. Since we cannot do direct scientific study of the North Korean population, thinking on this issue is by its very nature speculative. One way [...]
A familiar trope of the North Korean famine literature is the assertion that the event would have significant long-term effects on the physical and mental capacities of individuals who were nutritionally deprived as children. While the notion has enormous intuitive plausibility, I know of no actual evidence on the North Korean case, and studies of [...]
Back in December we posted the “Mother of all ‘Not Satire’ Pieces,” the ANC Youth League’s extraordinary homage to the late Kim Jong-il. The piece elicited considerable feedback, most of it private, along the lines of “it’s amazing anyone is still around who could write like that” (except expressed in more vivid language—which maybe explains [...]
