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North Korean Elites: Implications for Commercial Activities with China
At an early point in his sprawling 2100+ page memoir With the Century, Kim Il Sung initiates a line of discussion of which we are sure to see more in the coming years: praise for patriotic Korean capitalist-nationalist-revolutionaries. Recollecting his youth in Pyongyang (“a city of shacks, made of cardboard boxes and four-by-fours”), Kim turns […]
O Kuk Ryol: The Old Guard Never Dies
A generation of North Korean leaders came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, and the bonds and relationships which had developed among them during this time — that is, during the Manchurian guerrilla experience and the subsequent North Korean revolution — shaped political developments in Kim Il Sung’s DPRK. Apart from the highly relevant […]
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