Rogue regime : Kim Jong Il and the looming threat of North Korea / Jasper Becker.
Becker, Jasper.
2005
DS935 .B43 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Rogue regime : Kim Jong Il and the looming threat of North Korea / Jasper Becker.
Author Becker, Jasper.
ISBN 019517044X (alk. paper)
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Language English
Description xiv, 300 p., [8] p. of plates ; 25 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 9780195170443
Call Number DS935 .B43 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.9304/3
Summary What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, he lived in palaces stocked with the most expensive delicacies from around the world. Outside, the steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out, and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population threatened to revolt, Kim imposed a reign of terror, deceived the United Nations, and plundered the country's resources to become a nuclear power. Journalist Becker takes us inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, which seems destined to linger on for some time, a menace to its own people and to the rest of the world.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Famine and flight
The Kim dynasty
The making of a god king
Slave state
North Korea's economic collapse
Kim Jong Il's court
Kim Jong Il
the terrorist master
Nuclear warlord
Kim Jong Il
the reformer
The UN and genocide
Kim Dae Jung and the South Korean way
Grappling with a rogue state.

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