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Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding North Korea
by C Kenneth Quinones  Publisher Comments In this accessible guide, readers will find unmatched expert analysis of the volatile situation in North Korea, along with answers to frequently asked questions. Covered topics include: North Korea's geography, people, industry, political systems, and...
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Aquariums of Pyongyang
by Kang Chol Hwan Publisher Comments North Korea is today one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism. Its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re...
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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History
by Bruce Cumings Publisher Comments In his "immensely illuminating and accessible history" (Kirkus Reviews), Bruce Cumings delivers a memorable narrative of Korea's fractured modern history. Beginning with an overview of the cultural and political traditions of this accomplished...
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North Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection
by David Heather Synopsis Seldom seen by the outside world, North Korea's propaganda art colors the cities and countryside with vibrant images of brave soldiers, happy and well-fed peasants, and a heroic and compassionate leader. More than 250 of these posters are collected here...
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Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea: Religious Maturity & Innovation in the Silla Dynasty
by L Lancaster Publisher Comments During the unified Silla dynasty period (669-935AD) that followed the Three Kingdom period, Buddhism was being assimilated into the Korean culture and taking on certain aspects not borrowed from China. Buddhist specialists will be interested in the ways...
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Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea
by Edward J Shultz Publisher Comments Generals and Scholars is the first work in English to examine fully military rule during the Koryo. Although it lasted for only a century, the period was one of dynamic change -- a time of institutional development, social transformation, and the...
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Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World
by Gordon G Chang Publisher Comments If we lose, I will destroy the world, said Kim Jong Il, supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim's regime insults all of us. Its very existence is an affront to humanity's sense of decency and challenges accepted notions of...
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Korea's Place in the Sun, Updated ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Bruce Cumings Publisher Comments In his immensely illuminating and accessible history (Kirkus Reviews), Bruce Cumings delivers a memorable narrative of Korea's fractured modern history. Beginning with an overview of the cultural and political traditions of this accomplished civilization,...
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The Koreansdings
by Michael Breen Publisher Comments The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our century. A few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they came out of the fields and into...
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Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies
by Victor D Cha Publisher Comments Coming to the issues from different perspectives, the authors together have written an essential work of clear-eyed reflection and authoritative analysis. They refute a number of misconceptions and challenge faulty thinking that surrounds the discussion...
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Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (Borderlines)
by Roland Bleiker Publisher Comments In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Earlier in the year, George W. Bush had declared...
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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
by Stephan Haggard Synopsis In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's...
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Korea in the Pacific Century: Selected Speeches
by Roh Tae Woo Book News Annotation In this selection of speeches, the president of the Republic of Korea addresses such issues as the reunification of South and North Korea, democracy and prosperity in the Republic, Korea's place in the world, relations with Japan and the former Soviet...
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The Koreans: Contemporary Politics & Society
by Donald Stone Macdonald Publisher Comments In this new edition, Donald Clark has thoroughly revised and updated Donald Macdonald’s widely praised introduction to Korea, describing and assessing the volatile and dramatic developments on the peninsula over the last five years. Remaining true...
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The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea
by Namhee Lee Book News Annotation Lee (Asian languages and cultures, U. of California-Los Angeles) explores how intellectuals and university students who participated in the South Korean democratization movement of the 1970s and 1980s, articulated, contested, and practices the notion...
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Crisis on the Korean Peninsula
by Michael E O'hanlon Publisher Comments The first comprehensive blueprint to decisively answer the question "What can be done about North Korea?" Before George W. Bush proclaimed it a member of the "axis of evil," North Korea had already spent decades at odds with the rest of the world...
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Two Days of Doubt: The Gate to Pusan Was Closed to the North Koreans, 1950
by Hugh Cort Publisher Comments Proclamations lit up the sky when Romans or Greeks were born and made history. At Buddy's birth nothing appeared. He was a nice towheaded kid with a speech defect and a flair for surviving usually killing accidents. Sent to California for speech therapy,...
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The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook (Global Studies, Asia)
by Mary E Connor Publisher Comments Ever wonder what the story behind the story was when North and South Korean teams marched together into the Sydney Olympic Games? In The Koreas, readers will be treated to an all-encompassing look at Korean history, economics, politics, and culture that...
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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
by Cullen Thomas Publisher Comments A gripping first-person account of one young Americans life-changing years in a South Korean prison. At age twenty-three Cullen Thomas was, like most middle-class kids his age, looking for something meaningful and exciting to do before settling into...
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Korean Crisis: Unraveling of the Miracle in the IMF Era
by Donald Kirk Publisher Comments Donald Kirk explores the reasons for Korea’s economic crisis, its aftermath, and its impact on the system that brought it about. He traces a variety of events that constituted the crisis, including a series of scandals at the height of the Korean...
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