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...hunger. In the 1990s, a severe famine is thought to have left up to a million North Koreans dead. Though aid workers say the country is not facing a full-blown famine, the shortage appears to be the worst food crisis since the 1990s. Erica Kang, director of the Seoul-based human-rights group Good Friends, says a "few hundred thousand people are in danger or at risk of famine" in North Korea. Marcus Noland, an expert on the North Korean economy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, believes that "hunger deaths are almost surely returning...
Drafted for World War II his sophomore year at Harvard, Wagner headed to Seoul where he worked with a U.S. military government aiming to transition South Korea back into independence...
...With Michiko Toyama in Tokyo and Stephen Kim in Seoul...
Asian markets got pummeled on Tuesday as investors dumped stocks across the region in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index closed down nearly 5%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 5.4%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped 6.1%. In Taiwan, where the main index slumped 4.9%, the government encouraged banks and state funds to buy shares to support the market...
...signs point to an ugly day in Asian markets in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index plummeted 4.6% in early trading, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 6.5%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped...