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The Hidden People of North Korea - Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover, Second Edition)
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The Hidden People of North Korea - Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom (Hardcover, Second Edition)
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This unique book, now fully updated, provides a comprehensive
overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on
decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh
explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the
authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of
Kim Jong-un shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the
command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary
individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism.
Weighing the very limited individual rights allowed, the authors
illustrate how the political class system and the legal system
serve solely as tools of the regime. The key to understanding how
the North Korean people live, the authors argue, is to realize that
their only allowed role is to support Kim Jong-un, whose
grandfather founded the country in the late 1940s. Still a cypher,
Kim Jong-un, as did his father before him, controls his people by
keeping them isolated and banning most foreigners. North Koreans
remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly
filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to
flood North Korea with information so that its people can make
decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous
propaganda.
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