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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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Kim Jong-il: North Korea's Dear Leader; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Dark Country; Pool of Darkness; Who Is Charlie Chaplin?; Teaching Journalists; Chapter 2: Two States; Kim Il-sung and the Division of Korea; The Cold War; Chapter 3: Going Nuclear; North Korean Aggression in 2010; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Anti-Americanism in South Korea; Chapter 4: Dear Boy; Childhood and War; Teaching the Teachers; Chapter 5: Dear Successor; How Kim Jong-il Was Chosen; Dear Leader and His Loves; Chapter 6: Portrait of the Artist; Limiting the Joy; Kim Turns to Kidnapping |
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Chapter 7: Is Jong-il Evil? Kim the Micromanager; The Temper and the Humor; How His People See Him; The Malignant Narcissist Theory; Chapter 8: Country of the Lie; The Secret to North Korean Communism; Race-Based Nationalism; Trouble with the Truth; The Control on Information; Chapter 9: The Gulag; The Gulag; The Story of Lee Soon-ok; Kang Chol-hwan: Child of the Camps; Chapter 10: The One Fat Man; A Journey through Russia; The Struggle for Food; Escaping to China; Chapter 11: Submerging Market; Looking in Vain for Signs of Change; Tourists from South Korea |
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Business Zones for China and South Korea Chapter 12: Follow the Money; Chapter 13: Collision Course; Notes; Korean Names; Recommended Reading; About the Author; Index |
| Summary |
An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant. From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan, the man, his motives, and the mechanisms of his absolute control over a country of twenty-three million people remains shrouded in mystery. In this second edition of his bestselling Kim Jong-il, Michael Breen, a leading expert on North Korea, dispels common myths and fallacies about the so-called "Dear Leader," while turning a spotlight on the man to reveal his true nature and the nature of his hold over a country ravaged by poverty and famine |
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Print version record |
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Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
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Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011 |
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Dictators -- Korea (North) -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea.
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Dictators
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Diplomatic relations
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Politics and government
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Korea (North) -- Biography
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Korea (North) -- Politics and government.
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Korea (North) -- Foreign relations
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Korea (North)
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118153796 |
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1118153790 |
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9781118153802 |
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1118153804 |
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