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

by French, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781842779057
• ISBN10: 1842779052
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• 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 Politics of Being

The Politics of Belonging

The Politics of Believing

The Politics of Partaking

The Politics of Striving

The Politics of Surviving

The Politics of Suffering

Conclusion

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