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Bradt North Korea
Robert Willoughby
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 240 PAGES
A practical, detailed overview of North Korea with information on tours, red tape and security issues, national parks, restaurants and cultural concerns.
(KOR28, $24.99)
North Korea, Another Country
Bruce Cumings
HISTORY 2004 PAPER 256 PAGES
A provocative examination of North Korea that contradicts many commonly held assumptions. Bruce Cumings is a professor of history at Chicago University and an expert on North Korea.
(KOR21, $15.95)
The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Kang Chol-Hwan Pierre Rigoulot
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2005 PAPER 256 PAGES
At the age of nine Kang Chol-Hwan was sent with his family to a remote concentration camp by the North Korean government, where he remained for the next ten years. Now a journalist in South Korea, Chol-Hwan describes his brutalized childhood in a stark, direct style. His co-author Rigoulot was an editor of The Black Book of Communism.
(KOR22, $16.95)
Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Bradley K. Martin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2006 HARD COVER 896 PAGES
NEW
A detailed portrait of Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-Il, their monstrous egos, appetites and monuments, and of the relationship of North Korea to the rest of the world, by a Newsweek bureau chief.
(KOR18, $19.95)
Korea Map
Nelles
MAP
A detailed, full-color travel map covering both North and South Korea at a scale of 1:1,500,000.
(KOR31, $10.95)
Pimsleur Quick & Simple Korean
Pimsleur Language Method
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Korean, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations.
(KOR17, $19.95)
Pyongyang, The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital
Chris Springer
GUIDEBOOK
A historical guide with photos and site-by-site descriptions of buildings and monuments of North Korea's showcase capital.
(KOR23, $25.00)
A State Of Mind
Daniel Gordon
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This British documentary focuses on two young North Korean gymnasts and their preparations for the Mass Games, a highly complex, choreographed performance that involves thousands of audience members.
(KOR24, $29.95)
Hungry For Peace, International Security, Humanitarian Assistance, And Social Change In North Korea
Hazel Smith
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A study of the famine that devastated North Korea during the 1990's and it's consequences. Author Hazel Smith argues that the famine caused North Korea to adjust in more ways than the West realizes.
(KOR26, $19.95)
Kim Il-Song's North Korea
Helen-Louise Hunter
HISTORY
In this declassified C.I.A. report, Hunter gives insight into North Korean society and Kim Il-Song, the leader that ruled it for 45 years.
(KOR29, $91.95)
Rogue Regime, Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
Jasper Becker
HISTORY
A seasoned Asia corespondent, Becker warns of the dangers posed by the North Korean regime in this unflinching overview of the horrors inflicted upon the Korean people by father and son Kim.
(KOR19, $15.95)
The Two Koreas, A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer
HISTORY
A history of North and South Korea covering the last 25 years, including information on North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
(KOR07, $22.00)
Comrades and Strangers, Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea
Michael Harrold
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
As the first Briton to live and work in North Korea under President Kim Il Sung's regime, author Michael Harrold gained unprecedented insight into the lives of elite and everyday North Koreans before he was asked to leave in 1994.
(KOR27, $19.95)
Kim Il Sung, The North Korean Leader
Dae-Sook Suh
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A historical study of the first North Korean president Il Sum King. Dae-Sook Suh is the Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.
(KOR25, $31.50)
Pyongyang, A Journey in North Korea
Guy Delisle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
DeLisle captures the absurd, nightmarish and bizarre of life in North Korea under Kim Jong Il in this graphic novel of his two-month-long stint overseeing animation for a French kid's show.
(KOR30, $19.95)
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