The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom

USNI AFCEA West 2010 panelist and co-author Kongdan Oh gives readers a sneak preview into her latest book, The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom.

This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of insider knowledge and experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-il shapes every aspect of its citizen's lives, how the command socialist economy has utterly failed, and how ordinary individuals struggle to survive through small-scale capitalism. North Koreans remain hungry and oppressed, yet the outside world is slowly filtering in, and the book concludes by urging the United States to flood North Korea with information so that its people can make decisions based on truth rather than their dictator's ubiquitous propaganda.

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Education

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• north korea
• international relations
• asia

[stanteau]

I really enjoyed your book. A very honest and up-to-date look at a nation that is largely known through myth.