This book chronicles a rare, regime-sanctioned excursion by a North American into the heart of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Author: Eddie Burdick

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9780786456536

Category: History

Page: 339

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To most of the world, North Korea remains a secretive and mysterious nation, one that has tightly controlled the outflow of information in order to groom its public image. This book chronicles a rare, regime-sanctioned excursion by a North American into the heart of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. What is revealed is often what’s expected, such as the adoration of leaders, excursions to national monuments, and exposure to propaganda relating to self-sufficiency. But as a Korean speaker, the author gathered a lot more information than the scripted English narration provided by his Korean guides. Behind the propaganda of the Communist regime, the authentic, eye-opening North Korea is revealed.

In A Capitalist in North Korea, Abt shares these and many other unusual facts and insights about one of the world's most secretive nations.

Author: Felix Abt

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

ISBN: 9781462914104

Category: History

Page: 320

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Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider. In 2002, the Swiss power company ABB appointed Felix Abt its country director for North Korea. The Swiss Entrepreneur lived and worked in North Korea for seven years, one of the few foreign businessmen there. After the experience, Abt felt compelled to write A Capitalist in North Korea to describe the multifaceted society he encountered. North Korea, at the time, was heavily sanctioned by the UN which made it extremely difficult to do business. Yet he discovered that it was a place where plastic surgery and South Korean TV dramas were wildly popular and where he rarely needed to walk more than a block to grab a quick hamburger. He was closely monitored and once faced accusations of spying, yet he learned that young North Koreans are hopeful—signing up for business courses in anticipation of a brighter, more open, future. In A Capitalist in North Korea, Abt shares these and many other unusual facts and insights about one of the world's most secretive nations.

Will Kim Jong-un resort to brute violence to assert his authority? Peter Goodspeed, the National Post’s senior international affairs writer and a veteran of two tours of the ultra-secretive nation, takes you inside the hermit kingdom.

Author: Peter Goodspeed

Publisher: Harper Collins

ISBN: 9781927402122

Category: History

Page: 54

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Kim Jung-un has big shoes to fill. His grandfather Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, was so omnipotent that the constitution was amended after his death to keep the preserved corpse of the "Supreme Leader Eternal" nominally in power. His father Kim Jong-il had 25 years to prepare to take over but his sudden death last December robbed the younger Kim of the chance to annoint himself with the dynastic myth of his forbearers. The sudden ascension of the young Kim has placed a new focus on North Korea with its nuclear capability and the world’s fifth largest military. Will Kim Jong-un resort to brute violence to assert his authority? Peter Goodspeed, the National Post’s senior international affairs writer and a veteran of two tours of the ultra-secretive nation, takes you inside the hermit kingdom.

Author: Melissa Valks

Publisher:

ISBN: 0981361706

Category: English teachers

Page: 127

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This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine.

Author: Ralph Hassig

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781442237193

Category: Political Science

Page: 252

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This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-un shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. Weighing the very limited individual rights allowed, the authors illustrate how the political class system and the legal system serve solely as tools of the regime. The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.

This study gives a comprehensive overview of the development of the Internet in North Korea, and discusses related applications, challenges and opportunities.

Author: Bernhard Seliger

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476617701

Category: Social Science

Page: 26

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This study gives a comprehensive overview of the development of the Internet in North Korea, and discusses related applications, challenges and opportunities. It argues that North Korea can no longer ignore the Internet, neither as a chance to further its intentions, e.g., in cyber warfare, national self-representation and business, nor as a threat due to the greater availability of knowledge in the country. This McFarland E-Single originally appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of North Korean Review (ISSN 1551-2789). The first academic journal in North America or Europe to focus exclusively on North Korea, NKR is published twice each year. Subscriptions and back issues are available directly from McFarland.

Based on a diary detailing a 900-mile journey by sedan chair through southern Korea in the 1880s--written by one of the few Westerners at the time who could speak Korean--Inside the Hermit Kingdom is an account like no other.

Author: George Clayton Foulk

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015074071351

Category: Korea

Page: 202

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Based on a diary detailing a 900-mile journey by sedan chair through southern Korea in the 1880s--written by one of the few Westerners at the time who could speak Korean--Inside the Hermit Kingdom is an account like no other. It gives readers a rare glimpse of the kingdom of Choson in its pristine condition, before the intrusion of the outside world.

More than just a travelogue of a strange & f oreign culture, Inside the Hermit Kingdom is the story of 2 journeys - the first a journey to a place seldom seen & only vaguely understood, the second a journey of self-discovery by the author.

Author: Sun-Kyung Yi

Publisher:

ISBN: 1550139045

Category: Korea

Page: 237

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More than just a travelogue of a strange & f oreign culture, Inside the Hermit Kingdom is the story of 2 journeys - the first a journey to a place seldom seen & only vaguely understood, the second a journey of self-discovery by the author. '

A travel-journalist goes into North Korea to see what may lurk behind the mysterious borders. Inside he would find a curious culture with fascinating people and many surprises! From the voice behind bigbeaverdiaries.com

Author: Stephen Harris

Publisher:

ISBN: 1773706144

Category: Travel

Page: 186

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A travel-journalist goes into North Korea to see what may lurk behind the mysterious borders. Inside he would find a curious culture with fascinating people and many surprises! From the voice behind bigbeaverdiaries.com

Author: 양승진

Publisher: 동방미디어

ISBN: STANFORD:36105024259991

Category: Korea

Page: 356

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