Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan Rights to culture Drawing from historical sources and

Drawing from historical sources and their own field research

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and reveals how some women were able to gain political influence through their familial connections with powerful men

Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan Rights to culture Drawing from historical sources andGreat Leader, Dear Leader is an absorbing expos of North Korea under the Kim clan Great Leader Kim Il Sung and his son, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. It traces the origin of the regimes ideology and investigates its attempts to fill the empty state coffers through missile technology sales and other unorthodox schemes. It examines the regimes relations with South Korea, the countrywide famine and the juche ideal, the military first policy, and the nuclear