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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828623803321

Autore

Becker Jasper

Titolo

Rogue regime [[electronic resource] ] : Kim Jong Il and the looming threat of North Korea / / Jasper Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-773395-6

0-19-029099-4

0-19-973723-1

1-280-84366-7

0-19-803810-0

9786610843664

1-4237-5823-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Disciplina

951.9304/3

Soggetti

Korea (North) History

Korea (North) Politics and government

Korea (North) Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface: Rogue State; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Famine and Flight; CHAPTER 2 The Kim Dynasty; CHAPTER 3 The Making of a God King; CHAPTER 4 Slave State; CHAPTER 5 North Korea's Economic Collapse; CHAPTER 6 Kim Jong Il's Court; CHAPTER 7 Kim Jong Il-The Terrorist Master; CHAPTER 8 Nuclear Warlord; CHAPTER 9 Kim Jong Il-The Reformer; CHAPTER 10 The United Nations and Genocide; CHAPTER 11 Kim Dae Jung and the South Korean Way; CHAPTER 12 Grappling with a Rogue State; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-II is closer than ever to developing an inter-continental ballistic missile and an armoury of nuclear weapons. This work focuses on North Korea's continuing survival and lays out the rationale behind the policies pursued by North and South - and their larger neighbours.