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100	1		_aTudor, Daniel, _d1982-, _eauthor. _9280228
245	1	0	_aNorth Korea confidential : _bprivate markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors / _cDaniel Tudor & James Pearson.
264		1	_aTokyo ; _aRutland, Vermont ; _aSingapore : _bTuttle Publishing, _c[2015]
300			_a192 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : _bcolor illustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tThe North Korean markets : how they work, where they are, and how much things cost -- _tLeisure time in North Korea -- _tWho is in charge? -- _tCrime and punishment in North Korea -- _tClothes, fashion, and trends -- _tCommunications -- _tSocial divisions -- _tWill North Korea collapse?
520			_aPrivate Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country.
650		0	_aCrime _zKorea (North). _9280229
650		0	_aFashion _zKorea (North). _9280230
650		0	_aHuman rights _zKorea (North) _9280231
651		0	_aKorea (North) _xEconomic conditions _y21st century. _9143879
651		0	_aKorea (North) _xHistory _y21st century. _9280232
651		0	_aKorea (North) _xSocial conditions _y21st century. _9143880
700	1		_aPearson, James _c(Journalist) _eauthor. _9280233
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