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Economic history Korea (North) Korea (North) Economic conditions Korea (North) Economic conditions 21st century Korea (North) Politics and government Korea (North) Social conditions Korea (North) Social conditions 21st century Park, Yeonmi Refugees Korea (North) Biography Social conditionsDemick, Barbara.
Summary: Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A rare, jaw-dropping glimpse of everyday life in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang: Zin-Mi is an adorable 8-year-old girl, who, as she prepares to join the prestigious Children's Union, participates in colorful, joyous patriotic school pageants, eats delicious evening meals at her family's well-appointed apartment, and is doted on by her attractive parents who work in model factories that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNDTudor, Daniel
Summary: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.93 TUDPark, Yeonmi.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015