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North Korea : markets and military rule / Hazel Smith, University of Central Lancashire.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xii, 381 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780521897785 (hardback)
  • 9780521723442 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • DS 935 .S57 2015
Contents:
Part I. Jettisoning caricatures: understanding history -- Beyond the cliches -- National identity -- Part II. The rise and fall of Kim Il Sungism -- Colonialism occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung -- War-fighting as state-building -- "Socialism in our own style" -- Sisyphus as economic model -- Social stratification in the workers' state -- Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism -- Part III. Marketisation and military rule -- Marketisation from below -- Military rule from above -- The marketisation of well-being -- The marketisation of the social structure -- Going nuclear -- Strategic paralysis -- North Koreans as agents of change.
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Part I. Jettisoning caricatures: understanding history -- Beyond the cliches -- National identity -- Part II. The rise and fall of Kim Il Sungism -- Colonialism occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung -- War-fighting as state-building -- "Socialism in our own style" -- Sisyphus as economic model -- Social stratification in the workers' state -- Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism -- Part III. Marketisation and military rule -- Marketisation from below -- Military rule from above -- The marketisation of well-being -- The marketisation of the social structure -- Going nuclear -- Strategic paralysis -- North Koreans as agents of change.

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