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"This is Paradise!" is a shocking and moving portrayal of scenes of every day life in North Korea, a secretive and brutal nation. Hyok Kang writes of the public executions, the labor camps and mines, the punishment for "anti-social behavior," the secret... [ More...]
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In his "immensely illuminating and accessible history" ("Kirkus Reviews"), Bruce Cumings delivers a memorable narrative of Korea's fractured modern history, focusing specifically on the country's long 20th century—a period of colonial exploitation by... [ More...]
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In this memoir, Won Tai Sohn remembers the unusually harsh Japanese treatment of Korean people in Korea, Manchuria, China and Japan, and his close relationship with North Korean president Kim II Sung from their boyhood to President Kim's sudden death in... [ More...]
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This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and... [ More...]
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The end of the Cold War in 1989 brought changes to many communist states, but North Korea remains embroiled in international crises. Looking forward, North Korea seemingly faces three choices: collapse, further war, or peaceful reunification with the south.... [ More...]
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Sixty years after Korea's partition into South Korea and North Korea, a full understanding of how this partition occurred is still wanting. Based on a careful examination of sources in Russian, English and Korean, including new archival evidence from... [ More...]
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