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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
A N Lanʹkov |
ISBN: | 9780199390038 0199390037 |
OCLC Number: | 878299442 |
Notes: | "Fully updated and revised." |
Description: | xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Society Kim Il Sung Built and How He Did It. Captain Kim Returns Home ; The War and What came after ; Between Moscow and Beijing: The Foreign Policy of Kim Il Sung's North Korea ; Dealing with the South ; The Command Society ; A Country of Camps ; The World According to Kim Il Sung ; The Silver Lining in a Social Disaster ; The Birth of Juche, the Rise of the Son, and the Slow-Motion Demise of a Hyper-Stalinist Economy -- Two Decades of Crisis. And Then the World Changed ; Capitalism Reborn ; The State Withers Away ; Taking the Exit Option: Not an Exodus Yet, But. ; Arrival in Paradise, aka Capitalist Hell ; Changing Worldviews -- The Logic of Survival (Domestically). Reform as Collective Political Suicide ; Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: (Not-So-Successful) Crackdowns on Market Activity ; A Disaster That Almost Happened: The Currency Reform of 2009 ; Still Poor and Malnourished, but Starving No More -- The Supreme Leader And His Era. The Belated Emergence of a ""Young General"" ; The Sudden Dawn of a New Era ; Collapse of the old guard ; The New Policy ; The New Logic ; Tensions with the South -- Survival Diplomacy. Playing the Nuclear Card ; Aid-Maximizing Diplomacy ; Meanwhile, in South Korea. (the Rise of 386ers and Its Consequences) ; A Decade of Sunshine ; The Sun Sets ; The Entry of China ; Interlude The Contours of a Future: What Might Happen to North Korea in the Next Two Decades -- What to Do about the North? Why Sticks Are Not Big Enough ; Why the Carrots Are Not Sweet Enough (and Why ""Strategic Patience"" Is Not a Great Idea, Either) ; Thinking Long Term ; The Hidden Benefits of Engagement ; Reaching the People ; Why They Matter: Working with the Refugees in South Korea -- Being Ready for What We Wish For. A Perfect Storm ; A Provisional Confederation as the Least Unacceptable Solution ; Something about Painkillers." |
Responsibility: | Andrei Lankov. |
Abstract:
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive.
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In his accessible and refreshingly fair-minded new book, Andrei Lankov does a fine job of making sense of the worlds most inscrutable state. ... Fizzing with anecdotes and insights, many of them provided by Lankovs countless contacts, it is a commanding overview of the countrys politics and society, and a significant contribution to policy debates in the United States and South Korea. * Francis Grove-White, International Affairs * Read more...
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