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The great successor : the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un / Anna Fifield.
Van Pelt Library DS935.7782.K56 F54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fifield, Anna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dictators.
- Korea (North)--Politics and government--2011-.
- Korea (North).
- Politics and government.
- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, 1984-.
- Kim, Chŏng-ŭn.
- Dictators--Korea (North)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 308 pages : map, genealogical table ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Skeptical yet insightful, Fifield creates a captivating portrait of the oddest and most secretive political regime in the world--one that is isolated yet internationally relevant, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons--and its ruler, the self-proclaimed Beloved and Respected Leader, Kim Jong Un."--Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The apprenticeship
- The beginning
- Living with the imperialists
- Anonymous in Switzerland
- Dictatorship 101
- The consolidation
- A third Kim at the helm
- No more belt tightening
- Better to be feared than loved
- Goodbye, Uncle
- The elites of Pyonghattan
- Millennials and modernity
- Playing ball with the "jackals"
- The confidence
- Party time
- The unwanted brother
- The treasured sword
- The charm offensive
- Talking with the "jackals".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-299) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fifield, Anna, author. Great successor
- ISBN:
- 9781541742482
- 1541742486
- 9781541724433
- 1541724437
- OCLC:
- 1089840113
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