The Impossible State, Updated Edition: North Korea, Past and Future
by Victor Cha
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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 illuminates the repressive regime's complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human rights abuses, and its belligerent relationship with the United States, and analyzes the regime's show more major security issues--from the seemingly endless war with its southern neighbor to its frightening nuclear ambitions--all in light of the destabilizing effects of Kim Jong-il's death and the transition of power to his unpredictable heir. Ultimately, this engagingly written, authoritative, and highly accessible history warns of a regime that might be closer to its end than many might think--a political collapse for which America and its allies may be woefully unprepared. show lessTags
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Victor Cha served in the White House as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council from 2004 to 2007. He currently holds the D. S. Song-KF Chair in Government and Asian Studies at Georgetown University and is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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- 951.93 — History & geography History of Asia China and adjacent areas Korean Peninsula North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)
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- DS935.5 .C47 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Korea Democratic People's Republic, 1948-
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