North Korea The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History, Second Edition

by French, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781842779040
• ISBN10: 1842779044
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This reissue of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events. A new foreword examines why North Korea has not gone away as a country or as an issue and argues that an understanding of the country is more important now than ever. A new in-depth postscript offers analysis of recent years and why Pyongyang felt compelled to test a bomb.

Author Biography

Paul French is the Chief China Representative of Access Asia, a market research and business intelligence company specialising in China and North Asia's economics and markets. He was educated in London and at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-author of One Billion Shoppers - Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions (1998) and author of Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai (2006). He lives in Shanghai.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Juche Nation - Beloved Leaders, Brilliant Thoughts, Power Cuts and Empty Shelves

A Normal Day in Pyongyang

The Juche State - Political Theory in North Korea

The Revolutionary Dynasty - Leadership in North Korea

The Economics of North Korea - Chollima, Speed Battles, Collapse and Famine

Economics Pyongyang Style - Command and Control

The Worst of Times - Food, Famine & the Arduous March

The Start of a Sort of Reform - Change & Regime Survival

The Reality of Reform - A Case Study of Sinuiju

Diplomacy and Military - Foreign Relations, Nuclear Crisis and Self-Defence

Don't Poke the Snake - US-DPRK Relations

Nuclear Ambitions Revealed - Bluster, Brinkmanship or Battle?

Something Different Emerges - Military-First

Change, Collapse and Reunification

One Korea - The Dream of Reunification

The End is Nigh - How Will the Story of the DPRK Finish?

Conclusion - The World's Most Dangerous Tripwire

Postscript

Introduction

The Juche Nation - Beloved Leaders, Brilliant Thoughts, Power Cuts and Empty Shelves

A Normal Day in Pyongyang

The Juche State - Political Theory in North Korea

The Revolutionary Dynasty - Leadership in North Korea

The Economics of North Korea - Chollima, Speed Battles, Collapse and Famine

Economics Pyongyang Style - Command and Control

The Worst of Times - Food, Famine & the Arduous March

The Start of a Sort of Reform - Change & Regime Survival

The Reality of Reform - A Case Study of Sinuiju

Diplomacy and Military - Foreign Relations, Nuclear Crisis and Self-Defence

Don't Poke the Snake - US-DPRK Relations

Nuclear Ambitions Revealed - Bluster, Brinkmanship or Battle?

Something Different Emerges - Military-First

Change, Collapse and Reunification

One Korea - The Dream of Reunification

The End is Nigh - How Will the Story of the DPRK Finish?

Conclusion - The World's Most Dangerous Tripwire

Postscript

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