Summary of Daniel Tudor & James Pearson's North Korea Confidential

Summary of Daniel Tudor & James Pearson's North Korea Confidential
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2022-06-09T22:59:00Z
Genre: True Crime
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The North Korean economy has always been based on person-to-person market exchanges, but they have never been as prevalent or necessary as they are today. The state no longer provides for the people, so they must rely on capitalism to survive. #2 The North Korean economy was doing well in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. However, the economy began to decline in the mid-1970s due to mismanagement by Kim Il Sung and the end of Soviet aid. The PDS began to break down in the early 1990s. #3 The North Korean famine of 1994-1998 was the darkest period in the country’s history, and it paved the way for marketization. Today, women in North Korea are becoming more independent and ambitious than ever before. #4 The North Korean government has a difficult relationship with its citizens’ economic liberalization. While there are reform-minded officials in the government, there is also a natural fear of change at the top.

A Brief History of Korea

A Brief History of Korea
Author: Michael J. Seth
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1462921116

Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times--one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's most successful economies. Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian mainland. Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum. Geographically isolated, the country was heavily influenced by powerful China and was often used as a bridge to the mainland by Japan. Calling themselves as "a shrimp among whales," Koreans borrowed elements of government, culture and religion all the while fiercely fighting to maintain independence from powerful neighbors. This fascinating book tells the story of Korean domestic dynasties, empires and states, as well as foreign conquest, occupation and division. Today, the two Koreas are starkly different--North Korea a nation closed to the world and South Korea an economic powerhouse and center of Asian democracy. Chronicling significant events right up through 2018's Singapore Summit, author Michael J. Seth presents a relevant, interesting and important history of Korea within a larger global context. Korea's history is a turbulent one, but ultimately the story of a resistant and resourceful people in search of lasting peace.

Stop North Korea!

Stop North Korea!
Author: Shepherd Iverson
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1462919170

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North Korea Confidential

North Korea Confidential
Author: Daniel Tudor
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1462915124

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era--one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters, the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society--from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country.

Friend

Friend
Author: Paek Nam-nyong
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0231551401

Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader consideration of love and marriage. The novel delves into its protagonists’ past, describing how the couple first fell in love and then how their marriage deteriorated over the years. It chronicles the toll their acrimony takes on their son and their careers alongside the story of the judge’s own marital troubles. A best-seller in North Korea, where Paek continues to live and write, Friend illuminates a side of life in the DPRK that Western readers have never before encountered. Far from being a propagandistic screed in praise of the Great Leader, Friend describes the lives of people who struggle with everyday problems such as marital woes and workplace conflicts. Instead of socialist-realist stock figures, Paek depicts complex characters who wrestle with universal questions of individual identity, the split between public and private selves, the unpredictability of existence, and the never-ending labor of maintaining a relationship. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

Unveiling the North Korean Economy

Unveiling the North Korean Economy
Author: Byung-Yeon Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017-06-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107183790

A comprehensive, systematic analysis of the North Korean economy, exposing its hidden workings through quantitative data analysis and surveys.

Global Transformations

Global Transformations
Author: M. Trouillot
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137041447

Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the Twenty-first-century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study.

Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence

Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence
Author: Nigel West
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2015-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442249579

Intelligence is now acknowledged as the hidden dimension to international diplomacy and national security. It is the hidden piece of the jigsaw puzzle of global relations that cements relationships, undermines alliances and topples tyrants, and after many decades of being deliberately overlooked or avoided, it is now regarded as a subject of legitimate study by academics and historians. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on espionage techniques, categories of agents, crucial operations spies, defectors, moles, double and triple agents, and the tradecraft they apply. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the international intelligence.

The Reluctant Communist

The Reluctant Communist
Author: Charles Robert Jenkins
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520259997

"This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and, episode by episode, reveals the inner workings of its isolated society. Jenkins mounted numerous failed escape attempts, was indoctrinated against his will into North Korea's communist cadre system, and endured hunger, cold, and isolation. His loneliness was relieved in 1980 by his marriage to Hitomi Soga. a young Japanese woman whom the North Koreans had abducted as part of a wider campaign to teach Japanese to future spies. Jenkins's account of their life together and as parents of two daughters, as welt as their improbable journey to freedom, which began in 2002, brings this story to a close. Four decades in the world's least known, least visited, and least understood land profoundly changed him; his memoir now offers the reader a powerful testament to the human spirit."--BOOK JACKET.