This is an account of an American woman's recent travels through North Korea. Throughout her journey, she continually witnessed rundown villages, starving children with hollow eyes, haggard women crawling in the fields for single grains of rice and civilians unloading food aid at the point of bayonets.
The author predicts that North Korea's economic reform, which has just started, will progress slowly, but that the country will one day be open to the outside world. It may, however, take another twenty years for this reform to be complete. Small, reluctant changes have already happened though, and this book expresses optimism that one day the North Korean people will end their isolation and join the world's mainstream.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"fascinating and important...excellent appendix and index...recommended"-Library Journal; "an excellent book for understanding what famine looks like...recommended"-Catholic Library World; "posing as Chinese, [the author] traveled briefly with a Chinese tour group in North Korea...a reasonably accurate sense of the horrific conditions in the country and of the desperation felt by many of its people"-Los Angeles Times.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
photos, appendix, notes, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-1691-2 (9780786416912)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Writer Nanchu lives in Athens, Georgia. Her articles have appeared in Rocky Mountain News, Mid-US News, and Shanghai Health News. Xing Hang is associate professor at the Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I: A COUNTRY IN PRISON
1. The Yalu River
2. Slow Train
3. The Travel Guards
4. En Route to Mt. Myohyang
5. Kim Il Sung, God in North Korea
6. Kim Jong Il, Behind the Veil
7. Pyongynag-Hell and Paradise
8. In the Shadow of Juche
9. Pyongyang's Everyday Life
10. Underground Casino
11. The DMZ
12. Out of the Prison Country
PART II: BLOODY YANBIAN
13. Massive Flight
14. Cold Water Village
15. The Dangerous Life of the Escapee
16. Young Victims
17. North Korea's Auschwitz
18. The Mongolia Route
PART III: THE FAILURE OF THE COMMUNIST UTOPIA
19. Seeking a Change
20. Engaging the West
21. Beautifying Terrorism
22. Starve the Regime to Death?
23. Rise in Arms?
24. The First Light
Appendix: Timetable of the Famine
Chapter Notes
Index
