Just in case $4.xx/gallon gas and the seemingly interminable and insurmountable problems in Junior’s Iraq weren’t causing you enough headaches, Andrei Lankov– a professor of Korean history and politics at the Australian National University has written a distinctive and eye opening book about the realities of daily life in North Korea. I have to confess that apart from occasionally shelving the Korean collection at the library and having once upon a time watched the television show M*A*S*H to the point of total immersion, I know very little about either of the Koreas. And precious little scholarship exists about current day North Korea, despite the heavy coverage of Pyongyang’s nuclear arms program and the vague and ultimately empty threats from Washington. So this 2007 trade paperback caught my eye at the circulation and I brought it home and learned a bit about North Korea.
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