Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations, Spellings and Figures Foreword Introduction Part I: The Juche Nation - Beloved Leaders, Brilliant Thoughts, Power Cuts and Empty Shelves 1. A Normal Day in Pyongyang 2. The Juche State - Political Theory in North Korea 3. The Revolutionary Dynasty - Leadership in North Korea Part II: The Economics of North Korea - Chollima, Speed Battles, Collapse and Famine 4. Economics Pyongyang Style - Command and Control 5. The Worst of Times - Food, Famine & the Arduous March 6. The Start of a Sort of Reform - Change & Regime Survival 7. The Reality of Reform - A Case Study of Sinuiju Part III: Diplomacy and Military - Foreign Relations, Nuclear Crisis and Self-Defence 8. Don't Poke the Snake - US-DPRK Relations 9. Nuclear Ambitions Revealed - Bluster, Brinkmanship or Battle? 10. Something Different Emerges - Military-First Part IV: Change, Collapse and Reunification 11. One Korea - The Dream of Reunification 12. The End is Nigh - How Will the Story of the DPRK Finish? 13. Conclusion - The World's Most Dangerous Tripwire 14. Postscript

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Offering an introduction to North Korea, this work provides an overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK.

About the Author

Paul French is the chief China representative of Access Asia, a market research and business intelligence company specialising in China and North Asia's economics and markets. He was educated in London and at the University of Glasgow. He lives in Shanghai.

Reviews

'Fact-packed and readable, this is a fine introduction for the general reader...trust Zed to tell it like it really is.' - Aidan Foster-Carter, Senior Research Fellow, Leeds University 'French's...balanced study of North Korea today reminds us that...this longer historical view is essential if one is to grasp not only what drives the North Korean regime but what it shares (to the growing irritation of the Americans) with the South' - John Gittings, The Guardian