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ISBN 10: 1780329474 
ISBN 13: 9781780329475
Author: Paul French 

North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to foreigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, internationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the history and politics of North Korea, Pyongyang's complex relations with South Korea, Japan, China and America, and 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.

North Korea State of Paranoia 2nd Table of contents:

Part I The Juche nation: beloved leaders, brilliant thoughts, power cuts and empty shelves
1 A normal day in Pyongyang
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
2 The Juche state: political theory in North Korea
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
3 The revolutionary dynasty: leadership in North Korea
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
4 Economics Pyongyang style: command and control
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
5 The worst of times: food, famine and the arduous march
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
6 The start of a sort of reform: change and regime survival
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
7 The reality of reform: a case study of Sinuiju
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
8 Don’t poke the snake: US–DPRK relations
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
9 Nuclear ambitions revealed: bluster, brinkmanship or battle?
Whispered admissions in Pyongyang
Beijing’s facilitating role
Enrichment brinksmanship
10 ‘Military First’ emerges
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
11 One Korea: the dream of 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?
12 Kim3: the dynasty continues
A death in Pyongyang
Will the next Kim please step forward
A new type of cult
13 How will the story end?
The predicted collapse
The mass exodus strategy
Blowing down a paper tiger
Military takeover
The poisoned carrot
The end remains elusive
Conclusion: Still the world’s most dangerous tripwire
Survival and change
Risks, possibilities and stagnation

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