North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the history and politics of North Korea, Pyongyang's complex relations with South Korea, Japan, China and America, and the implications of Kim Jong-un's increasingly belligerent leadership following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il.
As an already unstable North Korea grows ever more unpredictable, antagonizing enemies and allies alike, North Korea: State of Paranoia delivers a provocative and frightening account of a potentially explosive nuclear tripwire.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- About the author
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abreviations, spellings and figures
- Foreword: The myth and the reality of the state of paranoia
- Introduction: The paranoid peninsula
- Part I The Juche nation: beloved leaders, brilliant thoughts, power cuts and empty shelves
- Part II The economics of North Korea: Chollima, speed battles, collapse and famine
- Part III Diplomacy and the military: foreign relations, nuclear crisis and self-defence
- Part IV Change, collapse and reunification
- Conclusion: Still the world’s most dangerous tripwire
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
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