Ebook: North Korea: Another Country

Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea & mdash;charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil" & mdash;is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable of delivering them to America's West Coast. But, as Bruce Cumings demonstrates in this provocative, lively read, the story of the U.S.-Korea conflict is more complex than our leaders or our news media would have us believe. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Korea, and on declassified governme.;Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One War Is a Stern Teacher; Chapter Two The Nuclear Crisis: First Act and Sequal; Chapter Three The Legend of Kim Il Sung; Chapter Four Daily Life In North Korea; Chapter Five The World's First Postmodern Dictator; Chapter Six Beyond Good and Evil; Recommended Reading; Notes.