North of the DMZ
Subtitle: essays on daily life in North Korea
By: Andrei Lankov.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.; McFarland & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780786428397
Subjects: Korea (North) -- Social conditions.; Korea (North) -- Politics and government.
Description: "Book describes the difficult but determined existence that North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. The book introduces the political system and the extent to which it permeates citizens' daily lives; discusses the schools, the economic system, and family life; treats the changes that have taken place in North Korea over the last decade"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leaders Dear and Great; title: In Times of Propaganda; title: The Arts and the Media; title: The Workers' Paradise?; title: Pyongyang  the Mythic Capital; title: Daily Lives; title: Recreation and Fashion; title: Family Matters; title: All Things Which Move   Letting the Bicycle Ride; title: Big Brother Is Watching   A Peep-Hole into North Korea; title: How Does the System Work; title: Schools Both Great and Small; title: It's Economics; title: Foreign Affairs; title: On Spying, Smuggling and Kidnapping, Cigarettes, and Whiskey, and Wild, Wild ... Diplomats; title: North Koreans Overseas, Foreigners in   North Korea; title: Defectors   Trade Across the Water; title: The Unnoticed Death of North Korean   Stalinism.