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Privileged but Powerless

How North Korean Elite Grievances Reveal the Regime’s Greatest Weakness

Av Jieun Baek

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A compelling examination of North Korea’s elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime’s futureJieun Baek’s second book on North Korea is a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harbored by the country’s elite. Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek examines how members of this privileged class, granted access to forbidden information and superior material benefits, publicly uphold the regime despite their underlying discontent. She argues that this performative loyalty, born of fear and a desire to survive, masks a critical vulnerability within the regime’s core.Grounded in firsthand testimony and enriched by insights from a global network of academics, intelligence analysts, human rights practitioners, and policymakers, Baek’s account challenges the prevailing view of North Korea’s elites as uniformly loyal actors. Instead, she reveals a complex and precarious reality faced by those closest to power.This book sheds new light on how elite grievances may shape the trajectory of the regime’s stability and security. Baek offers a provocative argument: that those who seem most invested in preserving North Korea’s status quo may become its most dangerous disruptors, not for ideological reasons but because of simmering resentment and vanishing alternatives.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-05
  • Mått: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 542 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300272284
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Jieun Baek is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. She is the author of North Korea’s Hidden Revolution and researches elite discontent and regime instability in authoritarian states, particularly North Korea and Burma.

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“Baek has given us a balanced, credible and often fascinating set of insights into how North Korea sustains itself – and may continue to do so for years to come.”—Christopher Harding, Telegraph“This book is essential reading for policymakers, strategists, and anyone who needs to understand North Korea’s future risks.”—Graham Allison, Harvard Kennedy School“This excellent book takes the reader into the ‘hermit kingdom’ of North Korea. Its elite citizens are pampered. But as the book shows, in their political illegitimacy lies peril for the Kim dynasty.”—Honorable Michael Kirby, chair, UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea (2013–14)“Based on deep scholarly expertise and focused interviews, this is essential reading for those who would understand North Korea. Jieun Baek reveals the otherwise hidden cracks and fissures that affect political life in a country whose importance for global stability is only growing.”—Tom Simpson, University of Oxford

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