North Korea : toward a better understanding

North Korea : toward a better understanding /

We are told, time and again, that North Koreans are loyal to their leader, that they would do anything, even die for him, and that they are fiercely proud and nationalistic. But to an equal extent, we are told that they are oppressed, suffering, and readyto rise against the evil dictator. What do we...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Ryang, Sonia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2009
Series:New Asian anthropology.
Subjects:
Korea (North) > Relations > Japan.
Japan > Relations > Korea (North)
Korea (North) > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Korea (North)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : North Korea : going beyond security and enemy rhetoric / Sonia Ryang
  • North Korea and the birth pangs of a new Northeast Asian order / Gavan McCormack
  • Socialism, sovereignty, and the North Korean exception / Charles K. Armstrong
  • Biopolitics, or, the logic of sovereign love
  • love's whereabouts in North Korea / Sonia Ryang
  • The split screen : Sin Sang-ok in North Korea / Steve Chung
  • The politics of unification and neoliberal democracy / Hyun Ok Park
  • Refugees, abductees, "returnees" : human rights in Japan-North Korea relations / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.

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