Cha, Victor. An eye-opening view of the closed, repressive dictatorship of North Korea. Cha aims to get at some of the pressing questions since Kim Jong-il's death and the succession of the utterly unknown younger son, Kim Jong-un--e.g., what happened to this once-vigorous dictatorship, and why does the populace do nothing about it? The author looks closely at the Kim family, the terrible economic decisions that plunged the country into poverty, the shocking gulag system, its paranoid nuclear proliferation program and the tenuous relations with South Korea. A useful, pertinent work for understanding the human story behind the headlines.--KirkusFriday, June 15, 2012
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future
Cha, Victor. An eye-opening view of the closed, repressive dictatorship of North Korea. Cha aims to get at some of the pressing questions since Kim Jong-il's death and the succession of the utterly unknown younger son, Kim Jong-un--e.g., what happened to this once-vigorous dictatorship, and why does the populace do nothing about it? The author looks closely at the Kim family, the terrible economic decisions that plunged the country into poverty, the shocking gulag system, its paranoid nuclear proliferation program and the tenuous relations with South Korea. A useful, pertinent work for understanding the human story behind the headlines.--Kirkus
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