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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455565303321

Autore

Oh Kong Dan

Titolo

North Korea through the looking glass [[electronic resource] /] / Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-8157-9820-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HassigRalph C

Disciplina

951.93

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Korea (North) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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