... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Why has North Korea not collapsed in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
" 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.
This is a historically founded, empirical study of social and economic transformation wrought by 'marketisation from below' in North Korea.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure.
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 has presented one of the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period.