Always saying they eating grass. My mom would tell me how people had to eat grass when she was a kid and how people before she was born had to go hide in the mountains and eat tree bark. About people getting so hungry they'd eat a bunch of poisonous mushrooms and die... and this was South Korea during the Japanese occupation and Korean war.

Dr John Swenson-Wright is the Fuji Bank University Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Politics and International Relations, a Fellow of Darwin College and Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House.

North Korea: the perennial crisis state?

NKNews.org and "Byline,"  a journalism crowdfunding startup, are teaming up in an effort to fund field reporting along the China-North Korea border.

The idea is to go out and get those stories that slip through the cracks of mainstream media... which has to spend most of its time and resources on the 700 pound gorilla stories of geopolitics, and nuclear weapons, and high-level diplomacy.

Want to get involved?  Hear the founders of Byline and NKNews.org, Dan Tudor and Chad O'Carroll, in conversation on the latest NKNews podcast.

NKN 018 Crowdfunding News Coverage Of North Korea

The official podcast of NKNews.org, where you'll find comprehensive and impartial, agenda-free reporting on what's happening in North Korea from trained professionals.  The NKNews.org podcast is committed to bringing together the world's top experts on North Korea, to make honest inquiries into the dynamics shaping the country.

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