In North Korea : An American Travels through an Imprisoned Nation

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nanchu.

Contributor:

Hang, Xing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korea (North)--Description and travel.

Korea (North).

Korea (North)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Other Title:

In North Korea

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 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,

Contents:

Preface; Part I: A Country in Prison; 1; The Yalu River; 2; Slow Train; 3; The Travel Guards; 4; En Route to Mt. Myohyang; 5; Kim Il Sung, God in North Korea; 6; Kim Jong Il Behind the Veil; 7; Pyongyang-Hell and Paradise; 8; In the Shadow of Juche; 9; Pyongyang's Everyday Life; 10; Underground Casino; 11; The DMZ; 12; Out of the Prison Country; Part II: Bloody Yanbian; 13; Massive Flight; 14; Cold Water Village; 15; The Dangerous Life of the Escapee1; 16; Young Victims; 17; North Korea's Auschwitz; 18; The Mongolia Route; Part III: The Failure of the Communist Utopia; 19; Seeking a Change

20Engaging the West; 21; Beautifying Terrorism; 22; Starve the Regime to Death?; 23; Rise in Arms?; 24; The First Light; Appendix: Timetable of the Famine1; Chapter Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

0-7864-8397-0

OCLC:

606994264