Author: Jasper Becker
Translator: Young-geun Kwon, Gu-seop Kim
Publisher: Kiparang
384 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation
from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to
madness, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god,
surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two
million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between
palaces staffed by the most beautiful girls in the country and stocked
with the most expensive delicacies from around the world. Outside, the
steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out,
and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population threatened to
revolt, Kim imposed a reign of terror across the country, deceived the
United Nations, and plundered the country's dwindling resources to
become a nuclear power. Now tiny bankrupt North Korea is using her
nuclear capability to blackmail the United States.
Veteran correspondent Jasper Becker takes us inside one of the most
secretive countries in the world, exposing the internal chaos, blind
faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers. Becker
details the vain efforts to change North Korea by actors inside and
outside the country and the dangers this highly volatile country
continues to pose. Small, podgy and easily overlooked, Kim Jong Il has
emerged from the shadow of his father to lead the most successful and
dangerous rogue state of our times.
This unique land, ruled by one family's megalomania and paranoia, seems
destined to survive and linger on for some time, a menace to its own
people and to the rest of the world. But should the nations of the world
allow this regime to survive? That's the question with which this book
concludes.
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