The Impossible State - Victor Cha

The Impossible State
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Autor: Victor Cha

 Wydawnictwo: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780099578659
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"We killed Americans. We are killing Americans. We will kill Americans". (North Korean schoolchildren conjugating verbs). In 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 Rivers into China. Yet despite this, an oppressed, starving populace clings fiercely to its new Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un, and signs with the revolutionary slogan We Have Nothing To Envy line the streets of Pyongyang. So how did North Korea become this Impossible State? What does the future hold for a regime with terrifying nuclear ambitions and a seemingly endless war with its southern counterpart? Former White House adviser Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on the world's most isolated country to provide an unprecedented and timely insight into North Korea's history, present and future. "Engrossing... It offers perhaps the best recent one-volume account of North Korea's history, economics and foreign relations" The Economist "[This] excellent, comprehensive book explains as much as it is possible to explain the nature of this 'impossible state', how it has developed under the Kim dynasty and why it endures as a major thorn in the side of the global community" -- Jonathan Fenby The Times "This scrupulously researched account provides an alarming insight into how a long-running nightmare for North Koreans could soon become a geopolitical crisis for the rest of us" -- Stephen Robinson Sunday Times "He uses his first-hand and often surreal experiences of dealing with North Korean officialdom to telling effect in the book. But Cha is also a scholar of Korean and Asian affairs, so can take a historical view of the North Korean problem and set it in its wider international context. [An] impressive analysis" -- Richard Cockett Literary Review "Provocative, frightening, and never more relevant than today as an untested new leader takes charge of the world's most unpredictable nuclear power" -- Andrea Mitchell, Nbc News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent

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Victor Cha