Rogue regime : Kim Jong Il and the looming threat of North Korea /

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What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, he lived in palaces stocked with t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Becker, Jasper
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Kim, Chŏng-il, > 1942-2011.
Kim, Il-sŏng, > 1912-1994.
Kim, Chŏng-il, > 1942-2011
Kim, Il-sŏng, > 1912-1994
HISTORY.
Politics and government
Korea (North) > History.
Korea (North) > Politics and government.
Corée du Nord > Politique et gouvernement.
Korea (North)
Electronic book.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Famine and flight
  • The Kim dynasty
  • The making of a god king
  • Slave state
  • North Korea's economic collapse
  • Kim Jong Il's court
  • Kim Jong Il--the terrorist master
  • Nuclear warlord
  • Kim Jong Il--the reformer
  • The UN and genocide
  • Kim Dae Jung and the South Korean way
  • Grappling with a rogue state.

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