North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History

Paul French

Zed Books, 2005 - 323 頁

North Korea remains one of the least understood nations on earth; a nuclear enabled "Hermit Kingdom" ravaged by economic mismanagement and reliant on illegal weapons sales, smuggling and counterfeiting for most of its foreign reserves while undergoing a prolonged famine and propped up by aid donations. Not a normal country in any sense of the word, its nuclear weapons program makes it a country whose actions could have global ramifications. This book demystifies North Korea through revealing the daily life of its citizens; the political and economic history of the nation; the reasoning behind the country's combative way of engaging the world and the tentative economic reform process now being undertaken. The prospect of a nuclear North Korea preferring brinksmanship to engagement and negotiation, makes understanding Pyongyang's guiding principles, motives and possible future increasingly important.

內容

• The Paranoid Peninsula I: 1
• Beloved Leaders Brilliant Thoughts: 9
• Political Theory in North Korea: 30
• Food Famine and the Arduous March: 115
• Change and Regime Survival: 138
• Bluster Brinkmanship or Battle?: 208
• ΙΟ: 216
• II: 233
• 12: 244
• How Will the Story End?: 257
• 13: 272
• Notes: 282
• Bibliography: 307
• Index: 313

關於作者

Paul French is the Chief China Representative of Access Asia, a market research and business intelligence company specialising in China and North Asia's economics and markets. He was educated in London and at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-author of One Billion Shoppers: Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions (1998) and author of Carl Crow, A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai (2006). He lives in Shanghai.
Paul French is the Chief China Representative of Access Asia, a market research and business intelligence company specialising in China and North Asia's economics and markets. He was educated in London and at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-author of One Billion Shoppers: Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions (1998) and author of Carl Crow, A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai (2006). He lives in Shanghai.

書目資訊

• 書名: North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History
• 作者: Paul French
• 版本: 圖解
• 出版者: Zed Books, 2005
• ISBN: 1842774735, 9781842774731
• 頁數: 323 頁