Global Changes Skew Calculus Of Food Aid For N. Korea By Blaine Harden Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, March 15, 2008; A01 SEOUL -- A grim rite of spring in Northeast Asia is the calculation of how many North Koreans could starve before the fall harvest -- and what the neighbors are willing to do about it. This year, though, the famine bailout season is more urgent, more complicated and more politically explosive than at any time since the mid-1990s, when millions starved behind North Korea's closed borders. Severe crop failure in the North, surging global prices for food and...
