'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister t...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

作者簡介 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov） 安德烈·蘭科夫（Andrei Lankov ，1963－） 俄羅斯北韓問題專家，曾任首爾國民大學（Koomkin University）歷史教授、澳大利亞國立大學（the Australian National University）北韓歷史和政治高級講師。 1963年7月26日生於蘇聯列寧格勒（今聖彼得堡）， 大學和研究所就讀於列寧格勒國立大學。1985年他以一名平壤的交換學生在金日成綜合大學學習，並且在那裡學得一口流利的韓國語。關於北韓問題，從歷史到經濟和政治，他的著述頗多。本書是他在朝鮮期間的所見以及研究重要集結，是較早的有關北韓的重要文字記錄。著有：From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960(20...(展开全部)

In this key textbook, Michael J. Seth offers an excellent synthesis of existing scholarship, including a thorough examination of contemporary sources. Seth masterfully traces how North Korea gradually transformed itself from a Soviet-style socialist state to an ultra-nationalist, dynastic one, illuminating this journey with an engaging understanding of the political, ideologica...(展开全部)

This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail, the authors describe how the secretive and authoritarian government of Kim Jong-il shapes every aspect of its citizens' lives, how the command socia...(展开全部)

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief. As households, enterp...(展开全部)

Victor Cha is the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, where he served as an adviser to the president from 2004 to 2007. The recipient of two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the White House, Cha is also the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle and Beyond the Fi...(展开全部)

Victor Cha is the former Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, where he served as an adviser to the president from 2004 to 2007. The recipient of two Outstanding Service Commendations during his tenure at the White House, Cha is also the award-winning author of Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle and Beyond the Fi...(展开全部)