Marcus Noland is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His work encompasses a wide range of topics including the political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis. Noland is the author of Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (2007), Korea after Kim Jong-il (2004), Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas (2000)--which won the 2000-01 Ohira Memorial Award, Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future (1990); he is the coauthor of The Arab Economies in a Changing World (2007), a 2007 Choice Outstanding Aca...