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Description for Kim Il-Sung
Paperback. This book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death means for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 443 pages, 40 halftones; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; BGH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death will mean for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.
This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death will mean for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
443
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Number of Pages
443
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231065733
SKU
V9780231065733
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Ref
99-15
About Dae-Sook Suh
Dae-Sook Suh is the director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.
Reviews for Kim Il-Sung
Necessary background for our understadning of this mystic leader and the regime that he built...a major conribution to scholarship and essential reading for anyuone intersted in contemporary Korea. Journal of Asian Studies Dae-Sook Suh... has to be commended for a thoroughly-researched study of the first North Korean president Il Sum King. Suh has produced a first rate historical study of ... Read more