North Korea in 100 Facts (eBook)

Ruth Ann Monti (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
192 Seiten
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-8697-4 (ISBN)

Infos

'Great ideology creates great times.' Kim Jong-il (1942-2011)Where to start with this mysterious, sometimes terrifying country? Perhaps with some hard facts - which are notoriously difficult to come by. Ruth Ann Monti teases out the truth about this dictatorship to provide an illuminating insight into a society that might just as well be in outer space for most in the West. Did you know, for instance, that high school students are required to complete an 81-hour course on current leader Kim Jong-un? Or that everyone must wear a Kim badge at all times? Even Mao didn't demand that. How about the fact that Kim Jong-un's father and predecessor, Kim Jong-il, kidnapped two of South Korea's film industry giants and made seven films with them including a Socialist version of Godzilla? The 100 facts don't all make grim reading: for instance, North Koreans like to relax with a favourite tipple - but make theirs from acorns. More importantly, in 2012 North Korean archaeologists discovered a unicorn lair This book highlights the hidden reality and strange truths about this much-misunderstood country.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-4456-8697-X / 144568697X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4456-8697-4 / 9781445686974