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A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy. -Foreign Affairs The definitive account of North Korea, its veiled past and uncertain future, from the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council In The Impossible State , seasoned international-policy expert and lauded scholar Victor Cha pulls back the curtain on this controversial and isolated country, providing the best look yet at North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that empowers them. He 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 major security issuesfrom the seemingly endless war with its southern neighbor to its frightening nuclear ambitionsall in light of the destabilizing effects of Kim Jong-il's recent death. How this enigmatic nation-stateone that regularly violates its own citizens' inalienable rights and has suffered famine, global economic sanctions, a collapsed economy, and near total isolation from the rest of the worldhas continued to survive has

Who reads The impossible state : North Korea, past and future?

Author

Victor D. Cha

Publisher

Bodley Head

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781448139583

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Political Science, Language Learning

Rating

3.91 / 5 (899 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14