Travis Jeppesen culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in North Korea to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un era
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) joined the rank of nuclear powers in October 2006 after exploding its first nuclear device. The test was not fully successful yet it unequivocally demonstrated DPRK's nuclear weapons capability. This book distinguis…
North Korea under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change" delves deeply into what we know - and what we think we know - about the current North Korean system. This incisive book probes the dynamics that inform the nation's domestic and foreign policies, examinin…
One of the most vexing foreign policy problems facing the international community today is the case of North Korea. Since the late 1980s, successive leaders of the five Northeast Asian powers have confronted the challenge to little effect. Despite a variety of foreign policy str…
In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my h…
Purpose: While many scholars have traced how the Kim regimes merged the Korean War into North Korea’s national narrative, no one has conducted a systematic study of how the Kims subsequently wielded the civil war story to advance their policy objectives. The purpose of this pape…
Bruce Bechtol, Jr. contends that Kim Jong-il's regime (1994 - 2011) exacerbated the threats that North Korea posed, and still poses, to the world. Bechtol explains how North Korea presents important challenges on five key fronts.
La 4ème de couv. indique : "Dear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmatic country became its most courageo…
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictly censored information and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to b…
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictly censored information and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to b…
As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, a travel pass, access to strictly censored information and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to b…