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Ralph Hassig and
Kongdan Oh
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Publication date
April 16, 2015
Pages
233
Binding
Paperback
Edition
2
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781442237186
ISBN-10
144223718X
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.86 lbs.
Original list price
$30.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) | North Korea Undercover | North Korea | North Korea's Hidden Revolution | North Korea Confidential | Nothing to Envy | The Real North Korea
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) | North Korea Undercover | North Korea | North Korea's Hidden Revolution | North Korea Confidential | Nothing to Envy | The Real North Korea
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-un shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. Weighing the very limited individual rights allowed, the authors illustrate how the political class system and the legal system serve solely as tools of the regime.
The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.
The key to understanding how the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher, Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.
Editions
Hardcover
2 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (April 16, 2015); titled "The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom"
9781442237179 | details & prices | 233 pages | 5.00 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $89.00
from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (November 28, 2009)
9780742567184 | details & prices | 300 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $92.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
2 edition from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (April 16, 2015); titled "The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom"
9781442237186 | details & prices | 233 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.86 lbs | List price $30.00
About: This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today.
About: This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today.
With J. R. R. Tolkien |
from Houghton Mifflin (October 1, 1988); titled "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings"
9780395272213 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $11.95
This edition also contains The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
About: SYNOPSIS: "Last in a three-volume set in the imaginary world of the third Age of Middle-earth -- a world inhabited by many strange beings, including hobbits, an ancient people smaller than dwarves, cheerful, peace-loving and shy.
This edition also contains The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
About: SYNOPSIS: "Last in a three-volume set in the imaginary world of the third Age of Middle-earth -- a world inhabited by many strange beings, including hobbits, an ancient people smaller than dwarves, cheerful, peace-loving and shy.
With J. R. R. Tolkien |
from Houghton Mifflin (October 1, 1988); titled "The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings"
9780395272220 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $11.95
This edition also contains The Two Towers
This edition also contains The Two Towers
Miscellaneous
from Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc (November 16, 2009); titled "The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom"
9780742567207 | details & prices | List price $39.95
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