North Korea

  • North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival
    By Young Whan Kihl, Hong Nack Kim

    ... covert , or semiformal — that were extended to the DPRK by Western governments in the kangsong taeguk period , we might well discover that the ratio of such outside assistance to local commercial earnings began to approach the scale ...

  • North Korea
    By Christopher L. Salter, Charles F. Gritzner

    The northwestern Plain The Northwestern Plain is a major landscape feature of the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. It stretches from the Hanju Bay, which is bordered by the 38th parallel—the arbitrary line that has separated the ...

  • North Korea
    By Jonathan Fenby, Philippe Chancel, Michel Poivert

    A visual survey of North Korea examines life under the totalitarian regimes of the late Kim Il-sung and his successor, Kim Jong-il, covering such topics as their 1945 defeat of the Japanese occupation, the regimes' ubiquitous propaganda ...

  • North Korea: A Question and Answer Book
    By Susan E. Haberle

    ... 29 ( coins ) ; Photo courtesy of Dr. Leonid A. Petrov , 21 ; Photo courtesy of Richard Sutherland , 29 ( bill ) ; Ronald de Hommel , 6-7 , StockHaus Ltd. , 29 ( flag ) Artistic Effects Ingram Publishing , 12 1 2 3 4 ...

  • North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History
    By Paul French

    This reissue of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events.

  • North Korea: Building of the Monolithic State
    By Chong-Sik Lee, Robert A Scalapino

    Why has North Korea not collapsed in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union?

  • North Korea
    By Robert Willoughby

    Scalapino , Robert and Lee , Chong Sik Communism in Korea vols 1 & 2 , Berkeley : University of California Press , 1972 Smith , Hazel Hungry for Peace United States Institute of Peace Press 2005 , Library of Congress Control Number ...

  • North Korea: Markets and Military Rule
    By Hazel Smith

    In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the ...

  • North Korea: A History
    By Michael J. Seth

    Seth masterfully traces how North Korea gradually transformed itself from a Soviet-style socialist state to an ultra-nationalist, dynastic one, illuminating this journey with an engaging understanding of the political, ideological, economic ...

  • North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress
    By Hy-Sang Lee

    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 ...

  • North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know®
    By Patrick McEachern

    " In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format.

  • North Korea
    By Hazel Smith

    This is a historically founded, empirical study of social and economic transformation wrought by 'marketisation from below' in North Korea.

  • North Korea: Anonymous Country
    By Julia Leeb, Niko Karasek

    These photographs open a window into a society that we cannot begin to imagine. They are like a conversation between the North Korean people and ourselves."--Page 4of cover.

  • North Korea: Another Country
    By Bruce Cumings

    But, as Bruce Cumings demonstrates in this provocative, lively read, the story of the U.S.-Korea conflict is more complex than our leaders or our news media would have us believe.

  • North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics
    By Heonik Kwon, Byung-Ho Chung

    In defiance of the instability to which so many revolutionary states eventually succumb, the durability of charismatic politics in North Korea defines its exceptional place in modern history.

  • North Korea: The Politics of Regime Survival
    By Young Whan Kihl, Hong Nack Kim

    Featuring contributions by some of the leading experts in Korean studies, this book examines the political content of Kim Jong-Il's regime maintenance, including both the domestic strategy for regime survival and North Korea's foreign ...

  • North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?
    By William Overholt

    This volume assembles the work of leading experts in the hope of dispelling the misinformation and lack of information. Every author in this volume writes from career-long study of Korea and personal experience in Korea. --

  • North Korea: State of Paranoia
    By Paul French

    North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure.

  • North Korea: The Definitive Guide to Understanding the Hermit Kingdom
    By Ryan Burke

    First, this book will describe how the country came to be, including elements from past eras that helped shape the North Korean ideology of today.

  • North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation
    By Congressional Research Congressional Research Service

    North Korea has presented one of the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period.