In North Korea

An American Travels through an Imprisoned Nation

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and civilians unloading food aid at the point of bayonets.The author predicts that North Korea's economic reform, which has just started, will progress slowly, but that the country will one day be open to the outside world. It may, however, take another twenty years for this reform to be complete. Small, reluctant changes have already happened though, and this book expresses optimism that one day the North Korean people will end their isolation and join the world's mainstream.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-08-05
Mått152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt286 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor205
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786416912

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Table of ContentsPreface PART I: A COUNTRY IN PRISON1. The Yalu River 2. Slow Train 3. The Travel Guards 4. En Route to Mt. Myohyang 5. Kim Il Sung, God in North Korea 6. Kim Jong Il, Behind the Veil 7. Pyongynag—Hell and Paradise 8. In the Shadow of Juche 9. Pyongyang’s Everyday Life 10. Underground Casino 11. The DMZ 12. Out of the Prison Country PART II: BLOODY YANBIAN13. Massive Flight 14. Cold Water Village 15. The Dangerous Life of the Escapee 16. Young Victims 17. North Korea’s Auschwitz 18. The Mongolia Route PART III: THE FAILURE OF THE COMMUNIST UTOPIA19. Seeking a Change 20. Engaging the West 21. Beautifying Terrorism 22. Starve the Regime to Death? 23. Rise in Arms? 24. The First Light Appendix: Timetable of the Famine Chapter Notes Index

“fascinating and important...excellent appendix and index...recommended”—Library Journal; “an excellent book for understanding what famine looks like...recommended”—Catholic Library World; “posing as Chinese, [the author] traveled briefly with a Chinese tour group in North Korea...a reasonably accurate sense of the horrific conditions in the country and of the desperation felt by many of its people”—Los Angeles Times.