The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Inbunden)
avVictor Cha
ISBN: 9780061998508 - UTGIVEN: 201204The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security CouncilThough it is much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolate[...]
The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (Häftad)
avVictor Cha
ISBN: 9780061998515 - UTGIVEN: 201307In The Impossible State, seasoned international-policy expert and lauded scholar Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on provocative, isolationist North Korea, providing our best look yet at its history and the rise of the Kim family dynasty and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. Cha il[...]
Impossible State (Häftad)
avVictor Cha
ISBN: 9780099578659 - UTGIVEN: 201306In North Korea, citizens found humming South Korean pop songs risk being sent to a gulag for six months of hard labour. Jail sentences are handed out if portraits of the late Kim Jong-il are not properly dusted. Shoot-to-kill orders are in effect for anyone caught trying to cross the Yalu or Tumen R[...]
Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Övrig)
avVictor Cha
ISBN: 9780231154901 - UTGIVEN: 2008-12-05The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and South Korea during the 1988 Seoul G[...]
