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Just finishing _North Korea: State of Paranoia_ by Paul French
http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE006073285
and just starting _ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror_ by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan
http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE006506913
The former is scholarly and a bit dry/specialized, but one of the few well researched (as well as can be) overviews of the dynastic succession of the three Kims, how DPRK came to be and how it evolved to where it is and some speculation as to where it is going. There is so little well sourced information on the subject that this is a very desirable resource, and Paul French is one of the relatively few credible scholars on the subject.
Just starting the latter, but looks good. In depth and well researched, as opposed to several other books on the subject that seemed like editorials. I have read a number of primary sources on the subject and the whole mess is something that seems to be almost all completely misreported by the western (and other) media.
That's my light summer reading, so far. :)
diogenesNY
http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE006073285
and just starting _ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror_ by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan
http://search.library.duke.edu/search?id=DUKE006506913
The former is scholarly and a bit dry/specialized, but one of the few well researched (as well as can be) overviews of the dynastic succession of the three Kims, how DPRK came to be and how it evolved to where it is and some speculation as to where it is going. There is so little well sourced information on the subject that this is a very desirable resource, and Paul French is one of the relatively few credible scholars on the subject.
Just starting the latter, but looks good. In depth and well researched, as opposed to several other books on the subject that seemed like editorials. I have read a number of primary sources on the subject and the whole mess is something that seems to be almost all completely misreported by the western (and other) media.
That's my light summer reading, so far. :)
diogenesNY