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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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