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200 10$aNorth Korea through the looking glass$b[electronic resource] /$fKongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig
210   $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2000
215   $a1 online resource (272 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aForeword; 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
330   $aFifty-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
607   $aKorea (North)$xPolitics and government
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