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ISBN 10:1780329474 

ISBN 13: 978-1780329475

Author: Paul French 

North Korea  is a country  that continues  to make headlines—arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure.  The world’s most secretive nuclear power, it is a nation that still has Gulag-style prison camps, no internet, and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, bestselling author Paul French takes the reader inside the world’s most secretive country. He examines the history and politics of North Korea, Pyongyang’s complex relations with South Korea, Japan, and America. As China begins to tire of its unruly ally, what are the implications of Kim Jong-un’s increasingly belligerent leadership following  the death of his father, Kim Jong-il? As an already unstable North Korea grows  ever  more unpredictable,  antagonizing  enemies and allies alike, North Korea: State of Paranoia, delivers a provocative and frightening account of a potentially explosive nuclear tripwire.

Table of contents:

Part I – The Juche Nation: Beloved Leaders, Brilliant Thoughts, Power Cuts and Empty Shelves

• Pyongyang: Capital of Our Revolution

• A Roof over Your Head

• Badges, Bicycles and Fashions

• Looking for the Rush Hour

• Shopping

• Work and School

• Love, Marriage and Fun

• Living in the Land of Perfect Bliss

• The Politics of Self-Reliance

• A Creative Application of Marxism–Leninism

• Selective Borrowings from Maoism

• Confucianism: Tapping into Traditional Thinking

• Underpinnings of Korean Nationalism and Traditionalism

• The Architects of Juche

• ‘Original, Brilliant and Revolutionary’?

• The Contradictions of Self-Reliance

• Birth of a Personality Cult

• From Guerrilla Leader to Leader of a Nation

• Consolidation and Dominance

• The Undisputed Great Leader

• The Successor and Dear Leader

• ‘Expect No Change from Me’

• Tiger Father, Dog Son

• The Lodestar of the Twenty-First Century

Part II – The Economics of North Korea: Chollima, Speed Battles, Collapse and Famine

• The Possibility of Perestroika, the Impossibility of Glasnost

• The Chollima Spirit

• The Great Leap Outward

• The Impregnable Fortress of Socialism

• The Industrial Crown Jewels

• The Lack of Investment

• The Doublethink on Foreign Trade

• From Subsidy Junkie to Ailing Economy

• Palaces Galore but No Socks

• The Economy Shows Its Cracks

• The Arduous March Begins

• The Energy Crisis: Grinding to a Halt

• The Two-Track Survival Economy

• The DPRK as an Aid Economy

• The Command Economy Remains Firmly in Place

• From Riches to Rags

• The Collective Agricultural Disaster

• ‘Slow Motion Famine’

• Attempts to Resolve the Agricultural Crisis

• Dying in Silence

• Solving the Shortages

• The End of the Arduous March

• Open Windows Attract Flies

• Perestroika à la Pyongyang

• Wages and Pricing Reforms

• Jettisoning the Ration

• The Role of Farmers’ Markets

• Reaching Under the Mattress

• Chinese and Russian Reform Precedents

• Pyongyang’s Twilight Economy

• A Fishing Rod of Temptation

• Reform or Die

• Caged Investment

• Sinuiju is Announced

• The Orchid Grower Comes to Town

• Greenhouses from Shenyang to Pyongyang

• What Kind of Zone Was Sinuiju to Be?

• The Departure of the Orchid Grower

• Sinuiju’s Confusing Message

Part III – Diplomacy and the Military: Foreign Relations, Nuclear Crisis and Self-Defence

• The Eternal Afterthought

• Nixon as Catalyst

• Ford, Carter and Kim

• The Reagan and Bush Years

• New Potential: Clinton Engages

• The 1994 Agreed Framework

• Bush II: Dialogue or War?

• A Useful Whipping Boy

• Whispered Admissions in Pyongyang

• Beijing’s Facilitating Role

• Enrichment Brinksmanship

• North Korea’s Third Estate

• ‘Fighting Invasion to the Last’

• North Korea’s Armed Forces: An Unknown Quantity

• The Sword of the Revolution

• The Nuclear Bargaining Chip

• The Porcupine Strategy

Part IV – Change, Collapse and Reunification

• Is Reunification Inevitable?

• A Brief History of Korean Unification

• A Flurry of Engagement

• Stalemates, Assassination and Entrenchment

• Renewed Engagement and Terrorism

• Floods, Decline and Economic Talks

• Democracy Flourishes, the North Feels Isolated

• Nordpolitik, Unification and Eastern Bloc Collapse

• A New Geopolitical Reality

• Terminal Decline in Pyongyang, Financial Crisis in Seoul

• Kim Dae-jung and the Sunshine Policy

• Sunshine Departs

• The German Example

• A Less Paranoid Peninsula?

• A Death in Pyongyang

• Will the Next Kim Please Step Forward

• A New Type of Cult

• The Predicted Collapse

• The Mass Exodus Strategy

• Blowing Down a Paper Tiger

• Military Takeover

• The Poisoned Carrot

• The End Remains Elusive

• Survival and Change

• Risks, Possibilities and Stagnation

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