The only travel guide currently on the market to this country which lives in almost total seclusion from the rest of the world.
Oliver Wainwright, Journalist und Fotograf des Guardian, bietet seltene Einblicke in ein Land, das sich wie kein anderes von der Welt abgeschottet hat.
With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula.
... a military coup ended civilian rule in South Korea and ushered in the military dictatorship of Park Chung-hee. ... recognizes in Pyongyang a true Korean spring: here, both Koreas are protected by Kim Jong-il's policy of Songun, ...
All but closed to outside visitors and influence, its public posture guarded and combative, we see almost nothing from inside North Korea.
After providing an accessible history of the nation, the author turns his focus to what North Korea is, what its leadership thinks and how its people cope with living in such an oppressive and poor place, arguing that North Korea is not ...
"Art Under Control in North Korea is the first publication in the West to explore the role of art in one of the world's most isolated nations.
The international group of authors in this volume address these questions and offer a timely analysis of the consequences of an operational North Korean nuclear capability for international security.
Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda This incredible collection of prints dating from the 1950s to the twenty-first century is the only one of its kind ...
It entailed digging some 124,000 wells.66 This worked out to be an undergroundwater pumping facility for each 3.2 hectares of dry field . In addition to this questionable excess in the draining of underground waters , the landscape of ...
This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters, the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street.