Slave to the Blog: Updates on refugees, foot and mouth, and further misadventures in Africa
by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard | April 25th, 2011 | 07:55 amLead story: We continue to follow the disturbing report that the North Korean security apparatus has developed a more systematic policy for squeezing the 20,000 plus refugees in the South by using their families as hostages. Threats—needless to say, highly credible ones—are being used for a variety of purposes: To extort money from the refugees; [...]