Format:
1 Online-Ressource (482 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed
ISBN:
9781780329499
Series Statement:
Asian Arguments Ser.
Content:
A gripping and provocative account of one of the world's most secretive countries
Content:
Front cover -- About the author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abreviations, spellings and figures -- A note on spellings and names -- A note on figures -- Foreword: The myth and the reality of the state of paranoia -- Introduction: The paranoid peninsula -- Observers of planet Pyongyang -- Tentative reform -- The problem of the command economy -- North Korea: paranoid peninsula -- Part I The Juche nation: beloved leaders, brilliant thoughts, power cuts and empty shelves -- 1 A normal day in Pyongyang -- Pyongyang: capital of our revolution -- A roof over your head -- Badges, bicycles and fashions -- Looking for the rush hour -- Shopping -- Work and school -- Love, marriage and fun -- Living in the land of perfect bliss -- 2 The Juche state: political theory in North Korea -- The politics of self-reliance -- A creative application of Marxism-Leninism -- Selective borrowings from Maoism -- Confucianism: tapping into traditional thinking -- Underpinnings of Korean nationalism and traditionalism -- The architects of Juche -- 'Original, brilliant and revolutionary'? -- The contradictions of self-reliance -- 3 The revolutionary dynasty: leadership in North Korea -- Birth of a personality cult -- From guerrilla leader to leader of a nation -- Consolidation and dominance -- The undisputed Great Leader -- The successor and Dear Leader -- 'Expect no change from me' -- Tiger father, dog son -- The lodestar of the twenty-first century -- Part II The economics of North Korea: Chollima, speed battles, collapse and famine -- 4 Economics Pyongyang style: command and control -- The possibility of perestroika, the impossibility of glasnost -- The Chollima spirit -- The Great Leap Outward -- The impregnable fortress of socialism -- The industrial crown jewels -- The lack of investment -- The doublethink on foreign trade
Content:
From subsidy junkie to ailing economy -- Palaces galore but no socks -- The economy shows its cracks -- The arduous march begins -- The energy crisis: grinding to a halt -- The two-track survival economy -- The DPRK as an aid economy -- The command economy remains firmly in place -- 5 The worst of times: food, famine and the arduous march -- From riches to rags -- The collective agricultural disaster -- 'Slow motion famine' -- Attempts to resolve the agricultural crisis -- Dying in silence -- Solving the shortages -- The end of the arduous march -- 6 The start of a sort of reform: change and regime survival -- Open windows attract flies -- Perestroika à la Pyongyang -- Wages and pricing reforms -- Jettisoning the ration -- The role of farmers' markets -- Reaching under the mattress -- Chinese and Russian reform precedents -- Pyongyang's twilight economy -- A fishing rod of temptation -- Reform or die -- 7 The reality of reform: a case study of Sinuiju -- Caged investment -- Sinuiju is announced -- The orchid grower comes to town -- Greenhouses from Shenyang to Pyongyang -- What kind of zone was Sinuiju to be? -- The departure of the orchid grower -- Sinuiju's confusing message -- Part III Diplomacy and the military: foreign relations, nuclear crisis and self-defence -- 8 Don't poke the snake: US-DPRK relations -- The eternal afterthought -- Nixon as catalyst -- Ford, Carter and Kim -- The Reagan and Bush years -- New potential: Clinton engages -- The 1994 Agreed Framework -- Bush II: dialogue or war? -- A useful whipping boy -- 9 Nuclear ambitions revealed: bluster, brinkmanship or battle? -- Whispered admissions in Pyongyang -- Beijing's facilitating role -- Enrichment brinksmanship -- 10 'Military First' emerges -- North Korea's third estate -- 'Fighting invasion to the last' -- North Korea's armed forces: an unknown quantity
Content:
The sword of the revolution -- The nuclear bargaining chip -- The porcupine strategy -- Part IV Change, collapse and reunification -- 11 One Korea: the dream of reunification -- Is reunification inevitable? -- A brief history of Korean unification -- A flurry of engagement -- Stalemates, assassination and entrenchment -- Renewed engagement and terrorism -- Floods, decline and economic talks -- Democracy flourishes, the North feels isolated -- Nordpolitik, unification and Eastern bloc collapse -- A new geopolitical reality -- Terminal decline in Pyongyang, financial crisis in Seoul -- Kim Dae-jung and the Sunshine Policy -- Sunshine departs -- The German example -- A less paranoid peninsula? -- 12 Kim3: the dynasty continues -- A death in Pyongyang -- Will the next Kim please step forward -- A new type of cult -- 13 How will the story end? -- The predicted collapse -- The mass exodus strategy -- Blowing down a paper tiger -- Military takeover -- The poisoned carrot -- The end remains elusive -- Conclusion: Still the world's most dangerous tripwire -- Survival and change -- Risks, possibilities and stagnation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780329475
Additional Edition:
Print version French, Paul North Korea : State of Paranoia London : Zed Books,c2014 ISBN 9781780329475
Language:
English
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