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The impossible state : North Korea, past and future /

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In 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cha, Victor D., 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:Second Ecco paperback edition.
Subjects:
Political culture > Korea (North) > History.
Korea (North) > Politics and government.
Korea (North) > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Korea (North)
Korea (North) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Contradictions
  • The best days
  • All in the family
  • Five bad decisions
  • The worst place on Earth
  • The logic of deterrence
  • Complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID)
  • Neighbors
  • Approaching unification
  • The end is near
  • Unpredictable
  • Epilogue: Whiplash.