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- Book Title
- Rogue Regime : Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
- Item Length
- 6.1 in
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- International Relations / General, Asia / Korea, Security (National & International), World / Asian
- Item Width
- 9.3 in
- Item Weight
- 16.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and come to life, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by beautiful girls and stocked with expensive international delicacies. Outside, the steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out, and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population threatened to revolt, Kim imposed a reign of terror, deceived the United Nations, and plundered the country's dwindling resources to become a nuclear power. Now this tiny bankrupt nation is using her nuclear capability to blackmail the United States. Veteran correspondent Jasper Becker takes us inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, exposing the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers. Becker details the vain efforts to change North Korea by actors inside and outside the country and the dangers this highly volatile country continues to pose. This unique land, ruled by one family's megalomania and paranoia, seems destined to survive and linger on, a menace to its own people and to the rest of the world. But should the nations of the world allow this regime to survive? That's the question with which this book concludes.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195308913
ISBN-13
9780195308914
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Rogue Regime : Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
International Relations / General, Asia / Korea, Security (National & International), World / Asian
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
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Trade
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Ds935.B43 2007
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"Becker makes a powerful case for defining Kim once and for all--not as an ordinary, if nuclear-tipped, dictator, but as an extraordinarily skillful tyrant presiding over the worst man-made catastrophe in modern history.... A highly readable narrative that unearths Kim's history, probes his decision-making style and details the grotesque consequences of those decisions. His book is a subtle plea to the world to expand its focus beyond the--admittedly important--nuclear issue to the vast humanitarian catastrophe unfolding under Kim Jong Il's gaze."--Joshua Kurlantzick, New York Times Book Review "A tough but even-handed treatment of the subject."--Andrew Scobell for Parameters "A very timely book.... Not for the faint-hearted. Mr. Becker takes an unblinking look at a dark regime that has made North Korea an international pariah, has elevated its rulers to the status of gods, and through torture and indoctrination reduced its subjects to virtual slaves.... The facts almost defy belief."--William Grimes, The New York Times "A good new look at North Korea."--Nicholas Kristof, The New York Observer "One of the few reporters to have firsthand experience of North Korea, veteran Asian correspondent Becker adds more nuance to a familiar story that the threat of nuclear arms, as well as the world's fifth largest standing army, are part of an attempt to force the rest of the globe to cater to a mad leader's megalomaniacal world.... Images of this grim state of affairs--which goes well beyond the Orwellian into the Kafkaesque--have been smuggled out over the past few years; how they came to be is described with rare concision by Becker.... Becker minces no words in warning that we may now have no way out of a monstrous situation."--Publishers Weekly "Really is required reading. Becker, one of the few Western reporters to spend time in the Stalinist state, details the megalomania of Kim Jong Il--who staffed his palaces with the country's most beautiful women--and the madness of his regime, under which 2 million Koreans have reportedly died of starvation."--New York Post "Jasper Becker is already known as one of the sharpest observers of contemporary China--and with Rogue Regime he immediately establishes himself as a premier observer, and critic, of Kim Jong Il's North Korea. Readers of this devastating book will be hard pressed to gainsay Becker's assertion that this dynastic dictatorship genuinely empowers evil--or to turn away from Becker's conclusion that only regime change is likely to bring a better life to the millions of ordinary North Koreans suffering under the Dear Leader's rule."--Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, The American Enterprise Institute "By giving us an engrossing and well-documented examination of the North Korean regime, Becker proves that Kim Jong Il is in a category of tyranny all on his own and that engagement and appeasement only strengthen him. If you care at all about the slow and certain genocide of the North Korean people, he makes a powerful case for why regime change is the only answer." --Suzanne Scholte, President, Defense Forum Foundation "Jasper Becker has warned us about North Korea, as a journalist with a sharp eye and an historian with perspective. North Korea with its bizarre cult of personality, its failed economy, its crackpot ideology and its relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction is a major challenge in the twenty-first century. The reader will learn of the cunning control freaks who run the country. Becker's convincing book will make the task of the apologists for North Korea that much more difficult." --James Lilley, Former American Ambassador to South Korea and China "Rogue Regime is the companion work to Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts, his earlier, well-documented account of 30 million famine deaths in Mao's China. Once again he pulls back a heavy veil of secrecy and reveals the immense suff, "Becker makes a powerful case for defining Kim once and for all--not as an ordinary, if nuclear-tipped, dictator, but as an extraordinarily skillful tyrant presiding over the worst man-made catastrophe in modern history.... A highly readable narrative that unearths Kim's history, probes hisdecision-making style and details the grotesque consequences of those decisions. His book is a subtle plea to the world to expand its focus beyond the--admittedly important--nuclear issue to the vast humanitarian catastrophe unfolding under Kim Jong Il's gaze."--Joshua Kurlantzick, The New YorkTimes Book Review, "Jasper Becker has warned us about North Korea, as a journalist with a sharp eye and an historian with perspective. North Korea with its bizarre cult of personality, its failed economy, its crackpot ideology and its relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction is a major challenge in thetwenty-first century. The reader will learn of the cunning control freaks who run the country. Becker's convincing book will make the task of the apologists for North Korea that much more difficult." --James Lilley, Former American Ambassador to South Korea and China, "By giving us an engrossing and well-documented examination of the North Korean regime, Becker proves that Kim Jong Il is in a category of tyranny all on his own and that engagement and appeasement only strengthen him. If you care at all about the slow and certain genocide of the North Koreanpeople, he makes a powerful case for why regime change is the only answer."--Suzanne Scholte, President, Defense Forum Foundation, "A very timely book.... Not for the faint-hearted. Mr. Becker takes an unblinking look at a dark regime that has made North Korea an international pariah, has elevated its rulers to the status of gods, and through torture and indoctrination reduced its subjects to virtual slaves.... The factsalmost defy belief."--William Grimes, The New York Times, "One of the few reporters to have firsthand experience of North Korea, veteran Asian correspondent Becker adds more nuance to a familiar story that the threat of nuclear arms, as well as the world's fifth largest standing army, are part of an attempt to force the rest of the globe to cater toa mad leader's megalomaniacal world.... Images of this grim state of affairs--which goes well beyond the Orwellian into the Kafkaesque--have been smuggled out over the past few years; how they came to be is described with rare concision by Becker.... Becker minces no words in warning that we may nowhave no way out of a monstrous situation."--Publishers Weekly, "A very timely book.... Not for the faint-hearted. Mr. Becker takes anunblinking look at a dark regime that has made North Korea an internationalpariah, has elevated its rulers to the status of gods, and through torture andindoctrination reduced its subjects to virtual slaves.... The facts almost defybelief."--William Grimes, The New York Times, "Rogue Regime is the companion work to Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts, hisearlier, well-documented account of 30 million famine deaths in Mao's China.Once again he pulls back a heavy veil of secrecy and reveals the immensesuffering of the people of North Korea."--Dean Hirsch, President, World VisionInternational, "By giving us an engrossing and well-documented examination of the NorthKorean regime, Becker proves that Kim Jong Il is in a category of tyranny all onhis own and that engagement and appeasement only strengthen him. If you care atall about the slow and certain genocide of the North Korean people, he makes apowerful case for why regime change is the only answer."--Suzanne Scholte,President, Defense Forum Foundation, "Really is required reading. Becker, one of the few Western reporters to spend time in the Stalinist state, details the megalomania of Kim Jong Il--who staffed his palaces with the country's most beautiful women--and the madness of his regime, under which 2 million Koreans have reportedly diedof starvation."--New York Post, "Jasper Becker is already known as one of the sharpest observers of contemporary China--and with Rogue Regime he immediately establishes himself as a premier observer, and critic, of Kim Jong Il's North Korea. Readers of this devastating book will be hard pressed to gainsay Becker's assertionthat this dynastic dictatorship genuinely empowers evil--or to turn away from Becker's conclusion that only regime change is likely to bring a better life to the millions of ordinary North Koreans suffering under the Dear Leader's rule."--Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy,The American Enterprise Institute, "Rogue Regime is the companion work to Jasper Becker's Hungry Ghosts, his earlier, well-documented account of 30 million famine deaths in Mao's China. Once again he pulls back a heavy veil of secrecy and reveals the immense suffering of the people of North Korea."--Dean Hirsch, President,World Vision International
Table of Content
Preface: Rogue StateIntroduction1. Famine and Flight2. The Kim Dynasty3. The Making of a God King4. Slave State5. North Korea's Economic Collapse6. Kim Jong Il's Court7. Kim Jong Il--The Terrorist Master8. Nuclear Warlord9. Kim Jong Il--The Reformer10. The United Nations and Genocide11. Kim Dae Jung and the South Korean Way12. Grappling with a Rogue StateAfterwordNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2004-012967
Dewey Decimal
951.9304/3
Dewey Edition
22
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