Bøger om Nordkorea

'A propulsive investigation into the wild adventures of a man determined to bring down the North Korean regime . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain'The engrossing inside story of two recent events that are jaw dropping even for North Korea, and the obsessive man behind them . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna Fifield, author of The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong UnThe wild story of a college activist's high-stakes attempt to topple the North Korean regime and change the world.In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. Meanwhile, Hong's secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government's activities, and its volatile third-generation ruler, Kim Jong Un. Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong Nam, the dictator's older brother, Hong, along with Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Nam's family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid-an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the world's most unlikely fugitives. In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo-to instead live boldly by his principles. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope-who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in The Wall Street Journal-now reveals the full contours of this remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the world's most mysterious and unsettling nation.

"An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean Peninsula Korea at War recounts how two separate nations emerged on the Korean peninsula as the result of devastating conflicts involving provocative personalities and superpower intrigues. The topics covered in this fascinating book include: The brutal years of Japanese colonial rule which began with Japan's annexation of Korea and ended with its defeat in World War II--and which still dominate Japanese-Korean relations today The division of the country into a totalitarian North and a prosperous, democratic South North Korea's invasion of the South, motivated by Stalin, which led to the bloody Korean War--a conflict that is still not settled to this day The irascible General Douglas MacArthur, who was relieved of his command by President Truman when he disobeyed a direct order and attempted to expand the war into China The rise of the Kim regime in North Korea and the continuing threat of nuclear war today Historian Michael J. Seth explores these and other themes including the complete story of North Korea--a nation and a people who for three generations have lived under the world's most repressive regime. He also discusses how South Korea has made the incredible leap from one of the world's poorest nations to one its richest and most dynamic. Korea at War is the story of two nations with a shared past that could hardly be more different today. With over 50 color photographs and maps, this book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand contemporary Asian politics and current affairs"--

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Note: 1,7, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Trotz seiner geographischen Abgelegenheit steht Nordkorea seit den 1990ern fest im Zentrum weltpolitischer Auseinandersetzungen. Erstens gehört Nordkorea zu den repressivsten Staaten der Welt. Zweitens ist es dem Land gelungen, sämtlichen Krisen und Sanktionen zum Trotz, ein eigenes Nuklearprogramm zu entwickeln. Seit Jahren werden die Hintergründe der nordkoreanischen Regimestabilität debattiert. Eine wichtige Frage in der Nordkorea-Forschung ist daher die der Verbindung zwischen der Performanz des Landes und dem Nuklearprogramm. Im Kern geht es dabei um die Frage, was die Motivation hinter der nuklearen Aufrüstung Nordkoreas sein könnte. Ausgangspunkt der Forschung ist dabei eine im Detail unterschiedlich begründete Sicherheitsfunktion des Nuklearprogramms. Wenn es dem Kim-Regime letztendlich um das Überleben geht, dann bleibt unklar, welchen Beitrag ein Nuklearprogramm dazu leistet. Von außen betrachtet hängen die Sanktionen und die militärischen Drohungen der USA gegen Nordkorea gerade mit diesem Verhalten zusammen. Es erscheint daher vielversprechend, die Ursachen im politischen System Nordkoreas zu suchen. In Abgrenzung zur innerstaatlichen Forschung in den Internationalen Beziehungen soll nicht primär das außenpolitische Verhalten erklärt werden. Es soll stattdessen untersucht werden, wie das Nuklearprogramm beim Streben nach ¿regime survival¿ hilft. Weiter soll mit der institutionellen Ausgestaltung des Programms ein soweit ersichtlich vernachlässigter Aspekt der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung untersucht werden. Mit Hilfe des Drei-Säulen-Modells autokratischer Regimestabilität (Gerschewski 2013) wird daher untersucht, welchen Beitrag das nordkoreanische Nuklearprogramm zur Regimestabilität leistet. Konkret wird argumentiert, dass das Regime auf Grund seines Typs mit dem Programm versucht, sich zu legitimieren und Eliten zu kooptieren. Dies geschieht über die Bereitstellung von Gütern an die Bevölkerung und strategisch wichtige Akteure sowie die Einbindung in formelle und informelle Netzwerke. Nach der Vorstellung des Forschungsdesigns werden im dritten Kapitel die Grundlagen der nordkoreanischen Legitimation und Kooptation von Eliten dargelegt. Im vierten Kapitel wird gezeigt wie das Regime u.a. mithilfe des Nuklearprogramms Regimestabilität herbeiführt und warum vermeintliche Denuklearisierung in der Vergangenheit auch der Regimestabilität diente. [...]

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Region: Ferner Osten, Note: 1,7, Hochschule Fulda (Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kaum ein Konflikt der Welt ist so brisant und spannungsgeladen wie der auf der Koreanischen Halbinsel. An der am stärksten bewachten Grenze der Welt wird ein jahrzehntelanger Konflikt zwischen zwei ehemals verbrüderten Staaten ausgetragen, dessen Folgen bis heute andauern. Die Debatte um die koreanische Wiedervereinigung sorgt seit jeher nicht nur auf der Halbinsel für Zündstoff, auch im globalpolitischen Raum ist man sich über das Verfahren mit Nordkorea weitgehend uneinig. Gespräche über eine mögliche Wiedervereinigung finden statt ¿ doch ist die Stimmungslage des nordkoreanischen Machtinhabers Kim Jong Un mehr als wankelmütig. Gestern noch nukleare Aufrüstung und Raketentests vor der Küste Nordkoreas mit Geschossen, die das nordamerikanische und europäische Festland mühelos erreichen könnten, heute ein besonnenes Gipfeltreffen mit Südkorea unter dem Beteuern, künftig auf militärische Provokationsaktionen verzichten zu wollen, ja sogar mit dem gegenseitigen Versprechen einer gänzlichen Denuklearisierung der Halbinsel. Dieses politische Tauziehen lässt die Welt immer wieder den Atem anhalten, sei es vor der Aussicht auf einen positiven politischen Paradigmenwechsel oder unguter Vorahnung auf eine potentielle Eskalation, und sich fragen, wieso es beide koreanischen Staaten bislang nach mehr als 60 Jahren in der politischen Grauzone des Waffenstillstands noch nicht zu einer endgültigen Lösung, oder zumindest einer entscheidenden Annäherung im Konflikt gebrachthaben.

In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea.From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war on the Korean peninsula. Yet ironically this conflict has come to be known as the USA's "Forgotten War." Korean War historian Dr Carter Malkasian explains how this conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. In this illustrated history, he examines how the West demonstrated its resolve to thwart Communist aggression and the armed forces of China, the Soviet Union and the United States came into direct combat for the only time during the Cold War. Updated and revised for the new edition, with specially commissioned color maps and new images throughout, this is a detailed introduction to a significant turning point in the Cold War.

This book focuses on the Korean People's Army (KPA) - the armed forces of North Korea - covering its history, structural organisation and lives of the soldiers and officers within its ranks.Utilising extensive Korean, English, Russian and Chinese language sources, as well as multiple interviews with people who have served in the KPA, this book provides an illuminating insight into the experience of KPA personnel. It presents fascinating and detailed examples of everyday life in the KPA, such as the systems of discipline and reprimands, the experience of women in the army, typical salaries and daily food allowances. The book also succinctly traces the history of the KPA from its foundation under the guidance of the Soviet Union and the experiences of the Korean War, through to the current iteration under Kim Jong-un.This pioneering work will be of huge interest to students and scholars of North Korea, the Cold War, Military Studies and Communism.

An expansive epic spanning the turbulent decades of Korea's fight for independence, perfect for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields-except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has gone undercover as a missionary and a teacher. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them English, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at PUST is lonely and claustrophobic, especially for Suki, whose letters are read by censors and who must hide her notes and photographs not only from her minders but from her colleagues-evangelical Christian missionaries who don't know or choose to ignore that Suki doesn't share their faith. As the weeks pass, she is mystified by how easily her students lie, unnerved by their obedience to the regime. At the same time, they offer Suki tantalizing glimpses of their private selves-their boyish enthusiasm, their eagerness to please, the flashes of curiosity that have not yet been extinguished. She in turn begins to hint at the existence of a world beyond their own-at such exotic activities as surfing the Internet or traveling freely and, more dangerously, at electoral democracy and other ideas forbidden in a country where defectors risk torture and execution. But when Kim Jong-il dies, and the boys she has come to love appear devastated, she wonders whether the gulf between her world and theirs can ever be bridged. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls "soldiers and slaves."