Bibliograph

Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated, Kim Jong-il: North Koreas Dear Leader, Revised and Updated Edition

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Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated, Kim Jong-il: North Koreas Dear Leader, Revised and Updated Edition

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

768732107

Sub title

Kim Jong-il: North Koreas Dear Leader, Revised and Updated Edition

Summary

An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrantFrom his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan, the man, his motives, and the mechanisms of his absolute control over a country of twenty-three million people remains shrouded in mystery. In this second edition of his bestselling Kim Jong-il, Michael Breen, a leading expert on North Korea, dispels common myths and fallacies about the so-called "

Table Of Contents

Kim Jong-il: North Korea's Dear Leader; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Dark Country; Pool of Darkness; Who Is Charlie Chaplin?; Teaching Journalists; Chapter 2: Two States; Kim Il-sung and the Division of Korea; The Cold War; Chapter 3: Going Nuclear; North Korean Aggression in 2010; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Anti-Americanism in South Korea; Chapter 4: Dear Boy; Childhood and War; Teaching the Teachers; Chapter 5: Dear Successor; How Kim Jong-il Was Chosen; Dear Leader and His Loves; Chapter 6: Portrait of the Artist; Limiting the Joy; Kim Turns to KidnappingChapter 7: Is Jong-il Evil?Kim the Micromanager; The Temper and the Humor; How His People See Him; The Malignant Narcissist Theory; Chapter 8: Country of the Lie; The Secret to North Korean Communism; Race-Based Nationalism; Trouble with the Truth; The Control on Information; Chapter 9: The Gulag; The Gulag; The Story of Lee Soon-ok; Kang Chol-hwan: Child of the Camps; Chapter 10: The One Fat Man; A Journey through Russia; The Struggle for Food; Escaping to China; Chapter 11: Submerging Market; Looking in Vain for Signs of Change; Tourists from South KoreaBusiness Zones for China and South KoreaChapter 12: Follow the Money; Chapter 13: Collision Course; Notes; Korean Names; Recommended Reading; About the Author; Index

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