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Troubled Transition
. Ed(S): Choe, Sang-Hun; Shin, Gi-Wook; Straub, David
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Paperback. Editor(s): Choe, Sang-Hun; Shin, Gi-Wook; Straub, David. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
Kim Jong-il once declared he would transform North Korea into a “great and powerful country” by 2012, apparently believing that nuclear weapons would compel the international community to engage on his terms. With no such prospect in sight and Kim himself now in failing health, his regime faces a multitude of intractable problems. Kim has apparently chosen his twenty-something third son as his successor, but will North Koreans accept this inexperienced young man as their leader, and will he embrace new thinking to solve the country's problems? Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes ... Read more
Kim Jong-il once declared he would transform North Korea into a “great and powerful country” by 2012, apparently believing that nuclear weapons would compel the international community to engage on his terms. With no such prospect in sight and Kim himself now in failing health, his regime faces a multitude of intractable problems. Kim has apparently chosen his twenty-something third son as his successor, but will North Koreans accept this inexperienced young man as their leader, and will he embrace new thinking to solve the country's problems? Why do North Korean leaders resist reform of an economic system that impoverishes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781931368285
SKU
V9781931368285
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Choe, Sang-Hun; Shin, Gi-Wook; Straub, David
Sang-Hun Choe , a Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and reporter for the International Herald Tribune , was the 2010-2011 Fellow in Korean Studies at Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, USA. Gi-Wook Shin is the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; founding director of its Korean Studies Program; and the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea ... Read more
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