North Korea through the Looking Glass /

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Oh and Hassig draw on ten years of research about the small militarized state, whose culture is dominated by the official ideology of Juche, emphasizing self-reliant independence and worship of the supreme leader, General Kim Jong II. However, a collapsed economy and sensitive nuclear proliferation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oh, Kong Dan
Other Authors: Hassig, Ralph C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politieke situatie.
Politics and government
HISTORY / Asia / Korea
HISTORY.
Noord-Korea.
Korea (North)
Coree du Nord > Politique et gouvernement.
Korea (North) > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Looking Backward 1
  • 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology 12
  • 3 The Turning Point Economy 41
  • 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People 81
  • 5 The Military: Pillar of Society 105
  • 6 Social Control 127
  • 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom 148
  • 8 Dealing with the DPRK 185.

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