In North Korea : an American travels through an imprisoned nation / Nanchu with Xing Hang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nanchu, 1953-

Contributor:

Hang, Xing, 1982-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea (North)--Description and travel.

Korea (North).

Korea (North)--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2003]

Summary:

This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and civilians unloading food aid at the point of bayonets. The author predicts that North Korea's economic reform, which has just started, will progress slowly, but that the country will one day be open to the outside world. It may, however, take another twenty years for this reform to be complete. Small, reluctant changes have already happened though, and this book expresses optimism that one day the North Korean people will end their isolation and join the world's mainstream.

Contents:

Part I A Country in Prison

1. The Yalu River 7

2. Slow Train 15

3. The Travel Guards 22

4. En Route to Mt. Myohyang 28

5. Kim Il Sung, God in North Korea 36

6. Kim Jong Il, Behind the Veil 45

7. Pyongynag

Hell and Paradise 54

8. In the Shadow of Juche 63

9. Pyongyang's Everyday Life 74

10. Underground Casino 81

11. The DMZ 87

12. Out of the Prison Country 102

Part II Bloody Yanbian

13. Massive Flight 111

14. Cold Water Village 120

15. The Dangerous Life of the Escapee 127

16. Young Victims 132

17. North Korea's Auschwitz 137

18. The Mongolia Route 143

Part III The Failure of the Communist Utopia

19. Seeking a Change 151

20. Engaging the West 159

21. Beautifying Terrorism 163

22. Starve the Regime to Death? 167

23. Rise in Arms? 173

24. The First Light 178

Appendix Timetable of the Famine 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.

ISBN:

0786416912

OCLC:

52257628