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

• Autore: Oh Kong Dan
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.93
• Soggetto geografico: Korea (North) Politics and government
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HassigRalph C
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: North Korea through the looking glass
• ISBN: 0-8157-9820-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455565303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II