An edition of North Korea confidential (2015)

North Korea confidential

private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors

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An edition of North Korea confidential (2015)

North Korea confidential

private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors

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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.

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Language
English
Pages
192

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Table of Contents

The North Korean markets : how they work, where they are, and how much things cost
Leisure time in North Korea
Who is in charge?
Crime and punishment in North Korea
Clothes, fashion, and trends
Communications
Social divisions
Will North Korea collapse?

Edition Notes

Includes bibiographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.93
Library of Congress
HN730.6.A8 T83 2015, JC599.K7 T836 2015, DS935.7776

The Physical Object

Pagination
192 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27190330M
Internet Archive
northkoreaconfid0000tudo
ISBN 10
0804844585
ISBN 13
9780804844581
OCLC/WorldCat
887850208

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