North Korea through the looking glass / Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oh, Kong Dan.

Contributor:

Hassig, Ralph C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea (North)--Politics and government.

Korea (North).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fifty-five years after its founding at the dawn of the cold war, North Korea remains a land of illusions. Isolated and anachronistic, the country and its culture seem to be dominated exclusively by the official ideology of Juche, which emphasizes national self-reliance, independence, and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong Il. Yet this socialist utopian ideal is pursued with the calculations of international power politics. Kim has transformed North Korea into a militarized state, whose nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and continued threat to South Korea have raised alarm world

Contents:

Foreword; Contents; Preface; 1 Looking Backward; 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology; 3 The Turning Point Economy; 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People; 5 The Military: Pillar of Society; 6 Social Control; 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom; 8 Dealing with the DPRK; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815798200

0815798202

OCLC:

53482640