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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Publisher Comments A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B R Myers Publisher Comments Understanding North Korea through its propaganda What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them? Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home by Laura Ling and Lisa Ling Publisher Comments On March 17, 2009, while filming a documentary on the Chinese–North Korean border, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers, charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il'... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick Publisher Comments A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens. Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years — a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E Kim Publisher Comments In this classic tale, Richard Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea — from its southern tip to the North Korean border — in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin Publisher Comments Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from infancy to follow fanatically the despots Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader lifts North Korea's curtain of... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Trade Paper
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Crisis on the Korean Peninsula by Michael E O'hanlon Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-220) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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To Kill a Tiger: A Memoir of Korea by Jid Lee Publisher Comments An unforgettable memoir weaving the author?s childhood with five generations of Korean history Against the backdrop of modern Korea?s violent and tumultuous history, To Kill A Tiger is a searing portrait of a woman and a society in the midst of violent... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Koreansdings by Michael Breen Publisher Comments The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our century. A few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they came out of the fields and into... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Meltdown: The inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis by Mike Chinoy Publisher Comments When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea's nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea possesses as many as ten nuclear warheads, and possibly the means to provide nuclear material to... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kim Jong-Il, Revised and Updated: Kim Jong-Il: North Koreas Dear Leader, Revised and Updated Edition by Michael Breen Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR KIM JONG-IL: NORTH KOREA'S DEAR LEADER WHO HE IS, WHAT HE WANTS, WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIM "Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's Dear Leader is a fascinating tour through the tortured history of North Korea and the mind of Kim Jong-il. A must-read for all... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons by Cullen Thomas Publisher Comments Cullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, & Modernity by Laurel Kendall Publisher Comments This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues--identity... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter by Sakie Yokota Publisher Comments On November 15, 1977, 13 year-old Megumi Yokota disappeared without a trace while on her way home from school. Twenty years later a newspaper revealed she was abducted by North Korean operatives and was still in North Korea. Megumi and at least 13 others... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Uncharted Path by Myong-bak. Trans. By Kim Ilbum Lee Book News Annotation Myong-bak Lee, current president of the Republic of Korea and former CEO of Hyundai, was once a poor boy whose only clothes were his school uniform. In this memoir, he attributes his success to the values of hard work and determination instilled in... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.08 New - Hardcover
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Red Rogue: The Persistent Challenge of North Korea by Bruce Bechtol Publisher Comments A unique analysis of the evolving North Korean threat and the challenges facing the South Korea???U.S... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class, and Consumption in the Republic of Korea by Laurel Kendall Publisher Comments Under Construction provides an illuminating portrait of south Koreans in the 1990s -- a decade that saw a return to civilian rule, a loosening of censorship and social control, and the emergence of a full-blown consumer culture. It shows how these... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin Synopsis Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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