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In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. Why have the two Koreas developed politically and economically in such radically different ways? What are the origins of a divided Korean Peninsula? Who rules the two Koreas? How have three generations of the authoritarian Kim dictatorship shaped North Korea?

One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly into the country, and fault lines are appearing in the government's sealed informational borders. Drawing on deeply personal interviews with North Korean defectors from all walks of life, ranging from propaganda artists to diplomats, Jieun Baek tells the story of North Korea's information underground.

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without...

History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. 

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state.

The wild story of a college activist's high-stakes attempt to topple the North Korean regime and change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he...

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.

"After Nuclear Test, South Korea Urges China to Rein in North" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

Contrary to popular belief, the reunification of North Korea and South Korea would not spell disaster for South Korea, nor would it pose an unacceptable risk for the United States, China, and Japan. Rather, it would produce massiveeconomic and social benefits for the peninsula and the region.

“A valuable primer on foreign policy: a primer that concerned citizens of all political persuasions—not to mention the president and his advisers—could benefit from reading.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An examination of a world increasingly defined by disorder and a United...

Arguing that North Korea is little more than a carefully constructed Chinese puppet state, the author looks into the heart of this "rogue nation" and finds the Chinese behind much of the terrorism and nuclear weapons manufacturing on the Korean peninsula.

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...

"Treasury Imposes Sanctions on North Korea" is from the June 01, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and Michael Corkery and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"North Korea Jamming GPS Signals across Border, South Korea Says" is from the April 1, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"North Korea Threatens Nuclear Attack as U.S. and South Korea Begin Drills" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"U.S. Says It'll Step up Defenses If China Fails to Act against North Korea" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jane Perlez and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"In Show of Alliance, U.S. Forces Fly B-52 Bomber Over South Korea" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang Hun and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"With Uncertainties Roiling Washington and Seoul, What Next for North Korea?" is from the December 11, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Motoko Rich and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"How the next President Can Stop North Korea" is from the September 13, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Joel S. Wit and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Lifeline to the outside World, Smuggled into North Korea" is from the March 26, 2016 Tech section of The New York Times. It was written by Choe Sang-Hun and narrated by Paul Ryden.