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Title
North Korea confidential
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Tudor, Daniel, 1982- (Author)
Pearson, James (Journalist) (Author)
Subject
Korea (North)--Social conditions--21st century (LCSH)
Korea (North)--Economic conditions--21st century (LCSH)
Korea (North)--History--21st century (LCSH)
Crime--Korea (North) (LCSH)
Fashion--Korea (North) (LCSH)
Human rights--Korea (North) (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Plates
Geographic Coverage
Classification
LCC: HN730.6.A8 T83 2015 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 951.93 full (Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
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.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Thanks and Acknowledgments
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 Division
Will North Korea Collapse?
Index.
Authorized Access Point
Tudor, Daniel, 1982- North Korea confidential
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Identified By: bf:Local, 19295000
Change Date: 2017-07-20T12:21:17
Creation Date: 2016-09-29
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: LC Copy Cataloging
Assigner: BTCTA