Origins of North Korea's Juche

Jae-Jung Suh is associate professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

• Chapter One. Making Sense of North Korea: Juche as an Institution, Jae-Jung SuhChapter Two. Colonial Origins of Juche: The Minsaengdan Incident of the 1930s and the Birth of North Korea-China Relationship, Hongkoo HanChapter Three. The Making of the Juche State in Postcolonial North Korea, Gwang-Oon KimChapter Four. The Suryong System as the Center of Juche Institution: Politics of Development Strategy in Postwar North Korea, Young Chul ChungChapter Five. The Rise and Demise of Juche Agriculture in North Korea, Chong-Ae YuChapter Six. North Korea’s Internal Politics and U.S. Foreign Policy, Patrick McEachern

Jae-Jung Suh’s edited volume Origins of North Korea’s Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development, is a much welcome addition to the field of Korean studies. . . .This volume makes a very valuable contribution to the existing literature on North Korean history by introducing the work of Korean scholars who have made significant contributions to the Korean-language historiography on the postwar development of the North Korean political and ideological systems. For this fact alone, the volume should be on the reading lists of students of North Korea. . . .The editor should be commended in particular for assembling works by scholars who primarily write in Korean. The volume will be of interest to both political scientists and historians.