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Acknowledgements | |
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List of Photographs | |
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Preface | |
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Notes on the Text | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Glossary of Korean Terms | |
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Life in the Dprk | |
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Dprk Society | |
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Everyday Life in the Dprk | |
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Family Relationships, Courtship, and Marriage | |
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The Workplace | |
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Leisure | |
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Meals | |
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High Days and Holy Days | |
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Keeping Up Appearances-Education | |
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Music | |
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Art | |
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Sickness and Health | |
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Life on the Farm | |
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Travel | |
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Religion | |
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The Environment | |
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Disability | |
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The Dprk Regime and Its People | |
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Forms of Political Control | |
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Political Meetings Political | |
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Rituals | |
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Travel | |
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Restrictions | |
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Military (And Other) Service | |
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Crime and Punishment | |
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Attitudes to the Regime | |
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The Bureaucracy | |
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The Gerontocracy and Its Attitudes to Change | |
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The Scars of the Korean War | |
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Dprk Economy | |
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Shortages | |
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The Public Distribution System in Practice | |
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Formal and Informal Markets | |
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Trade and Trade Fairs | |
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Services | |
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Shops | |
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Restaurants, Bars, and Cafes | |
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Industry | |
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Prospects For Economic Reform | |
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The Two Koreas | |
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Attitudes to South Korea | |
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The Kaesong Industrial Zone | |
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Kumgangsan | |
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Panmunjom | |
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Foreigners in the Dprk | |
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The Dprk and Foreigners | |
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Interactions Between Dprk Authorities and Resident Foreigners | |
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Restrictions and Permits | |
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Travel | |
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Constraints on Personal Relationships | |
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Attitudes Toward International Agencies And Ngos | |
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Foreigners' Attitudes to the Dprk | |
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Foreigner Life In Pyongyang | |
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Interactions Between Non-Official North Koreans and Foreigners | |
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The Nature of the Dprk Regime | |
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Introduction | |
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The Birth of the Regime | |
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Soviet Army Tutelage and the Choice of Kim Il Sung | |
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The Character of Kim Il Sung | |
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The Historical Legacy | |
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The Stalinist Inheritance | |
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The Birth of the Personality Cult | |
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The Korean War to the Famine | |
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The Political Scars of the Korean War | |
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The Personality Cult | |
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Grows | |
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The Cult of Nationalism | |
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The Dprk's Independent Path | |
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The Political Effects of Aid Dependency | |
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The Challenge From The South | |
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The Rise of Militarism | |
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The Famine and After | |
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The Death of Kim IL Sung and the Accession of Kim Jong Il | |
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The Trauma of the Famine | |
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Songun: the Enshrinement of Militarism | |
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The Nuclear and Missile Programmes | |
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The Regime in 2008 and After | |
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Nationalist, Not Marxist-Leninist, Propaganda | |
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Other Aspects | |
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Of the Nature of the Regime | |
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The 2009 Economic Measures | |
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The Leadership Succession | |
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Conclusion to Part Three | |
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Dealing With the Dprk | |
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How the World Has Dealt With the Dprk… | |
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The Objectives | |
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The Actors | |
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The Means | |
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…And How it Has Failed | |
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What Has Been Achieved, and What Hasn't? | |
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Problems with Previous Approaches to the Dprk | |
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Why Have These Approaches Failed? | |
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Why the Dprk Cannot Give the International Community What It Wants | |
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What Might Work in the Future? | |
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Conclusions | |
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Postscript | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |