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Author Hassig, Ralph C., author

Title The hidden people of North Korea : everyday life in the hermit kingdom / Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh
Edition Second edition
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents Introduction: land of illusions -- The country of the three Kims -- The struggling national economy -- The emerging people's economy -- Propaganda, news, and South Korean soap operas -- Public declarations and private thoughts -- The human rights deficit -- Silent defectors -- Faint light at the end of the tunnel
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, 1984- -- Influence
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011 -- Influence
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011
Kim, Chŏng-ŭn, 1984-
Political culture -- Korea (North)
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Economic history
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs
Political culture
Politics and government
Social conditions
Gesellschaft
Wirtschaft
Korea (North) -- Social life and customs
Korea (North) -- Social conditions
Korea (North) -- Economic conditions.
Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 2011-
Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.
Korea (North)
Nordkorea
Form Electronic book
Author Oh, Kong Dan
LC no. 2021676903
ISBN 9781442237193
1442237198
9781442237193