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The Real North Korea
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive
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Power and the Elite in North Korea
This book explores how political power has shaped the elite and their development in North Korea by examining changes of the elite, their interactions, and specific elite figures, based on the transformation of the power structure and characteristics of the North Korean regime since August 1945. As a socialist state where the party guides the state, the ruling core is the party cadre in North Korea. This book distinguishes the development of the North Korean power into five periods: power structuration of the Soviet forces (1945 to the late 1940s), socialist oligarchic power (late 1940s to mid-1950s), limited personal power (mid-1950s to late 1960s), personal power (late 1960s to mid-1970s) ...
The Park Chung Hee Era
In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost. South Korea's political landscape under Park defies easy categorization. The state was predatory yet technocratic, reform-minded yet quick to crack down on dissidents in the name of political order. The nation was balanced uneasily...
Korean Odyssey
The book is a fantasy story set in South Korea. It involves a young boy (Minsu) and a young girl (Jimin) who visit some Buddhist monks to help them deal with the loss of their cat Oonky. After a close call with death Jimin awakens an ancient warrior from the time when Korea was divided into three kingdoms who asks the children to do a favor for him. In the process the children meet the matriarch of the Turquoise Palace of Korea Past and Present Ms... While at the palace the children have the opportunity to observe some great moments in Korean history made by the people who did it. After the favor is fulfilled the children return to modern Korea.
