date:Apr 12, 2013
reatened military action only to return to disarmament talks in exchange for foreign aid.
The move to liberalize agriculture was to be a key policy initiated by the North's new leader Kim Jong-un, who took over from his father who died in late 2011, who himself experimented with economic reforms that faltered.
Although there was evidence of some liberalization in agriculture, a widely expected policy announcement last year was never made.
The agriculture report could not be independently veri