LEADER 02567nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910965214703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780815798200 010 $a0815798202 035 $a(CKB)111087027973574 035 $a(EBL)3004290 035 $a(OCoLC)53482640 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196135 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157852 035 $a(PQKB)10476521 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73746 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3004290 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10026220 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004290 035 $a(Perlego)921524 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027973574 100 $a20000323d2000 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNorth Korea through the looking glass /$fKongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780815764359 311 08$a0815764359 311 08$a9780815764366 311 08$a0815764367 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 676 $a951.93 700 $aOh$b Kong Dan$01806925 701 $aHassig$b Ralph C$01100581 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965214703321 996 $aNorth Korea through the looking glass$94356364 997 $aUNINA