Archive for: March 2007

Nuclear bombs and geopolitical controversy are often the first things associated with North Korea and its volatile leader Kim Jong-Il. Yet behind the secretive curtain of …

What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness and …

The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called “mad,” “rogue,” even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an “unreformed serial killer.” Yet, despite

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Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound Taps …

Axis of Evil World Tour goes beyond the superficial coverage found in much of the media to bring a boots-on-the-ground look at three of the most …

In Crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Michael O’Hanlon, a Senior Fellow at Brooking and visiting lecturer at Princeton, and Mike Mochizuki, endowed chair in Japan-US Relations …

Operating from a clandestine camp on an island off western North Korea, Army Lt. Ben Malcom coordinated the intelligence activities of eleven partisan battalions, including the famous White Tigers. With Malcom’s experiences as its focus, WHITE TIGERS examines all aspects …

In A Moment of Crisis, Marion V. Creekmore, Jr. tells the story of Jimmy Carter’s dramatic intervention in the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis …

“Oh and Hassig give their readers genuine insight into one of the most bizarre and mysterious societies on earth, at the precise moment when the North …

In 1987 Michael Harrold went to North Korea to work as English language adviser on translations of the speeches of the late President Kim Il Sung …

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system

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An unprecedented photographic tour of North Korea that examines life under the Kims’ totalitarian regime.

For more than half a century, North Korea has been …

A westerner’s visit into North Korea, told in the form of a graphic novel.

Famously referred to as one of the “Axis of Evil” countries, …

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Koreas two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting …

A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to today’s threats from rogue states.

For fifty years, the United States …