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Author | : Andrei Lankov |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786451416 |
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The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily existence. This book describes that difficult but f existence and the world that the North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. Many features of this world are unique and even bizarre. But they have been created by the citizens to reflect their own ideas and values, in sharp contrast to the world forced upon them by a totalitarian system. Opening chapters introduce the political system and the extent to which it permeates citizens' daily lives, from the personal status badges they wear to the nationalized distribution of the food they eat. Chapters discussing the schools, the economic system, and family life dispel the myth of the workers' paradise that North Korea attempts to perpetuate. In these chapters the intricacies of daily life in a totalitarian dictatorship are seen through the eyes of defectors whose anecdotes constitute an important portion of the material. The closing chapter treats at length the significant changes that have taken place in North Korea over the last decade, concluding that these changes will lead to the quiet but inevitable death of North Korean Stalinism. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Suk-Young Kim |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231537263 |
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The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the region's Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.
Author | : Andrei Lankov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199390037 |
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In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
Author | : Si-Woo Lee |
Publisher | : Global Oriental |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900421321X |
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The Journal of Youth and Theology is an international peer-reviewed academic journal that aims at furthering the academic study and research of youth and youth ministry, and the formal teaching and training of youth ministry.
Author | : Don Mee Choi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781940696966 |
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"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images" --
Author | : Alasdair Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Borderlands |
ISBN | : 9783958293151 |
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This book is Jongwoo Park's photo-documentation of the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ of Korea, the strip of land dividing North and South Korea. About 248 km long, 4 km wide, and 60 km from Seoul, this buffer zone between the two countries is, despite its name, one of the most militarized borders in the world, operating under strict armistice conditions following the end of the Korean War in 1953. In 2009 the South Korean Ministry of National Defense invited Park to document the DMZ, an area normally inaccessible to civilians and of which no comprehensive photographic record existed. Park did so rigorously until 2012, although the project proved a complex administrative undertaking involving detailed negotiations and planning. An unlikely tension energizes Park's series: the contrast between military presence (seen through barbed wire, outposts, and armed troops which have led to sporadic violence), and the natural beauty of the DMZ. For the isolation of this diverse landscape has allowed it to largely revert to its original state; today it is recognized as one of the world's best-preserved temperate habitats and home to several endangered species of flora and fauna.
Author | : Keith William Nolan |
Publisher | : Presidio Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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"In his fifth book on the Vietnam War, Nolan presents the definitive account of one of the Marine Corps' most blood-soaked battles: a tale of snipers and ambushes in the blinding elephant grass.." -- Book jacket
Author | : Michael Harrold |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2004-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470869844 |
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In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung (the Great Leader) and his son and heir Kim Jong Il (then Dear Leader and now head of state). For seven years he lived in Pyongyang enjoying privileged access to the ruling classes and enjoying the confidence of the country’s young elite. In this fascinating insight into the culture of North Korea he describes the hospitality of his hosts, how they were shaken by the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and many of the fascinating characters he met from South Korean and American GI defectors to his Korean minder and socialite friends. After seven years and having been caught passing South Korean music tapes to friends and going out without his minder to places forbidden to foreigners, he was asked to leave the country.
Author | : Ŏk-pae Yi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : JUVENILE FICTION |
ISBN | : 9780874869729 |
Download When Spring Comes to the DMZ Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Grandfather returns each year to the demilitarized zone, the barrier--and accidental nature preserve--that separates families that live in North and South Korea."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Mark Higginson |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2000-12-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595149251 |
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North of the River is a exciting and graphic tale of a young Army officer's first tour of duty in the Korean DMZ of 1969. The fact that a low grade war was being fought in Korea at that time is generally unknown to most of the American people. This story provides a fascinating and revealing tale, full of humor, adventure, romance, and an accurate picture of military life and life as a Red Cross "Doughnut Dolly" in this little know theater. It moves quickly through a thirteen month tour until the reader crashes head on into the surprise, action filled conclusion.