North Korea Confidential : (Record no. 16012)
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| fixed length control field | 02639cam a2200217 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780804844581 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 951.93 |
| Author Mark | TUD |
| Ledger number | Don E-inc Br |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tudor, Daniel, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | North Korea Confidential : |
| Remainder of title | Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Daniel Tudor & James Pearson. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Revised Second Edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Tokyo, Japan.: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Tuttle Publishing.: |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2020.: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 192 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details | color illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Crime |
| Geographic subdivision | Korea (North) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fashion |
| Geographic subdivision | Korea (North) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Human rights |
| Geographic subdivision | Korea (North) |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pearson, James |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
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| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Koha item type |
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| NUST/MCE Iqbal Library | NUST/MCE Iqbal Library | 03/05/2024 | 951.93 TUD | 52949 | Books |