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Title: The Hidden People of North Korea Condition: New Subtitle: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom ISBN-10: 144223718X EAN: 9781442237186 ISBN: 9781442237186 Edition: Second Edition Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Format: Paperback Release Date: 16/04/2015 Description: This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-un shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. Weighing the very limited individual rights allowed, the authors illustrate how the political class system and the legal system serve solely as tools of the regime. The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 228mm Item Length: 151mm Item Width: 19mm Item Weight: 381g Author: Kongdan Oh, Ralph Hassig Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, History Type: Textbook Release Year: 2015
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