Food for Thought in North Korea
In the coming weeks, as South Korea’s government ponders whether to provide food aid to North Korea, it will confront one of the toughest choices that any government can face. It must decide whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits that a famine-induced collapse of North Korea could bring.
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DENVER – Meet any Korean of a certain age, and you will learn about barley season, which begins in February and stretches through the cold months of early spring until the first of the winter barley crop is harvested. Few South Koreans remember those straitened months anymore, but for North Koreans, hunger in the countryside during this time of year is very real.