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Set at the turn of the 21st century in China, this novel follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly trips to Yanji, where he buys supplies and visits a brothel, he meets a young North Korean prostitute. Through her vivid tales,...

As a means of ascertaining or at least attempting to understand where North Korea is headed as a society, there is no better case study than the rocket launch attempted on April 13th, 2012 at the country's Sohae Space Center. This program was produced by Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV, which sent a camera team into North Korea to cover the event. The Phoenix TV team rubbed shoulders with journalists and broadcasters from around the world, all of whom...

Shin Dong-Huyk was born on November 19, 1983 in a North Korean death camp. Hear the story of how his parents met and how he was made to watch the execution of his mother and brother. Forced to work from age 7, he endured starvation, beatings, and torture that left him with deformed arms. His desire to risk death for attempting an escape came at the age of 24 when he learned about the outside world from a new inmate. He journeyed through North Korea...

This episode of The Dictator's Playbook examines the rise and reign of North Korea's Kim Il-Sung. See howhe created an unshakeable cult of personality and a dictatorship that has spanned three generations.

"During his research at The Public Records Office whilst acting in his capacity of Historian for the National Ex-prisoners of War Association, Philip Chinnery discovered some recently de-classified files on the Korean War. They contain records of investigations into 1,615 atrocities and war crimes perpetrated against troops serving with the United Nations command in Korea between 1950 and 1953. 10,233 of the victims were American. Much of the material...

"In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque state. After providing an accessible history of the nation, he turns his focus to what North Korea is, what its leadership thinks, and how its people cope with living in such an oppressive and impoverished place. He argues that North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds....

This book is part of the Reference Shelf series of books produced by H.W. Wilson Company, which publishes six Reference Shelf books a year on important topics (the sixth book being a compilation of important speeches of the year). Each of these books contains some twenty articles which are drawn from various press and print publications. This book, from the 2004 series, discusses Korea, with 27 articles organized into five sections: history and leadership,...

Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even...

With tensions near boiling point and most Americans now banned from visiting North Korea, CNN cameras go inside the secretive nation to places few outsiders have ever seen. Reported by CNN international correspondentWill Ripley- who has been to North Korea 15 times in the last three years

North Korea is one of the most politically isolated nations in the world with eccentric leadership, nuclear weapons and erratic foreign policy.