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Author Tudor, Daniel, 1982-

Title North Korea confidential : private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors / Daniel Tudor & James Pearson
Published New York : Tuttle Publishing, 2015

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Contents 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 -- Epilogue : Will North Korea collapse?
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. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what li
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Subject Crime -- Korea (North)
Fashion -- Korea (North)
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Crime
Fashion
Social conditions
SUBJECT Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Korea (North) -- History -- 21st century
Subject Korea (North)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pearson, James
ISBN 9781462915125
1462915124