Paul French

North Korea (eBook, ePUB)

State of Paranoia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the history and politics of North Korea, Pyongyang's complex relations with South Korea, Japan, China and America, and the implications of Kim Jong-un's increasingly belligerent leadership following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il.

As an already unstable North Korea grows ever more unpredictable, antagonizing enemies and allies alike, North Korea: State of Paranoia delivers a provocative and frightening account of a potentially explosive nuclear tripwire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783606832
• Artikelnr.: 43591004

Autorenporträt

Paul French has been based in Shanghai for many years as Chief China Representative of research and analysis consultancy Access Asia. He is a regular commentator of China and North East Asia on the international media. He is the author of a number of previous books including the well received North Korea The Paranoid Pensinsula for Zed Books.

Sam Chambers has lived in China for a decade and his career as a travel and transport writer has taken him to the four corners of the country. He has co-authored a number of books including a travel guide to Yunnan and Hunan provinces as well as a transportation guide to the Yangtze. Writing for a variety of titles including the Sunday Times and the Royal Geographic Society Chambers follows very closely the day-to-day needs and demands of this rapidly evolving nation. After living in Hong Kong for many years he is now based in the northeastern city of Dalian.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Myth and the Reality of the State of Paranoia Introduction:
The Paranoid Peninsula Part I: The Juche Nation: Beloved Leaders, Brilliant
Thoughts, Power Cuts and Empty Shelves 1. A Normal Day in Pyongyang 2. The
Juche State: Political Theory in North Korea 3. The Revolutionary Dynasty:
Leadership in North Korea Part II: The Economics of North Korea: Chollima,
Speed Battles, Collapse and Famine 4. Economics Pyongyang Style: Command
and Control 5. The Worst of Times: Food, Famine and the Arduous March 6.
The Start of a Sort of Reform: Change and Regime Survival 7. The Reality of
Reform: A Case Study of Sinuiju Part III: Diplomacy and Military: Foreign
Relations, Nuclear Crisis and Self-Defence 8. Don't Poke the Snake: US-DPRK
relations 9. Nuclear Ambitions Revealed: Bluster, Brinkmanship or Battle?
10. 'Military First' Emerges Part IV: Change, Collapse and Reunification
11. One Korea: The Dream of Reunification 12. Kim3: The Dynasty Continues
13. How Will the Story End? Conclusion: Still the World's Most Dangerous
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