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050 14 $aDS935.5$b.C47 2013
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100 1 $aCha, Victor D.,$d1961-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe impossible state :$bNorth Korea, past and future /$cVictor Cha.
250 $aFirst Ecco paperback edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bEcco,$c2013.
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axiv, 534 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aReprint. Originally published: ©2012.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 $a"With a new epilogue by the author"--Cover.
505 0 $aContradictions -- The best days -- All in the family -- Five bad decisions -- The worst place on Earth -- The logic of deterrence -- Complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) -- Neighbors -- Approaching unification -- The end is near -- Epilogue: The new normal: unpredictable.
520 $aLooks at the nation of North Korea, its history, social conditions, and place in world politics as it stands today and where it is likely to end up in the future. In this book the author, pulls back the curtain on provocative, isolationist North Korea, providing our best look yet at its history and the rise of the Kim family dynasty and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. He illuminates the repressive regime's complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human rights abuses, and its belligerent relationship with the United States, and analyzes the regime's major security issues, from the seemingly endless war with its southern neighbor to its frightening nuclear ambitions, all in light of the destabilizing effects of Kim Jong-il's death and the transition of power to his unpredictable heir. This history warns of a regime that might be closer to its end than many might think, a political collapse for which America and its allies may be woefully unprepared.
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