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North Korea Under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance
Sung Chull Kim Manufacturer: State University of New York Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0791469271 |
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Examines internal changes in North Korea under the expanding rule of Kim Jong Il.
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From Stalin to Kim Il Sung: The Formation of North Korea 1945-1960
Andrei Lankov , and A. N. LAN'Kov Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Similar Items:
ASIN: 0813531179 |
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To understand how North Korea has survived as the world's last Stalinist regime, despite international isolation and at enormous human cost to its people, one must look at how its political system was created. The country's foundations were laid in the late 1940s and the 1950s as a result of interaction between the Soviet Stalinist model, imposed from outside, and local traditions. Andrei Lankov traces the formation of the North Korean state and the early years of Kim Il Sung's rule, when the future "Great Leader" and his entourage were consolidating their power base. Surveying the situation in North Korea after 1945, Lankov explores the internal composition of the ruling elite, the role of the Soviets, and the uneasy relations between various politcal groups. He also focuses on how in 1956 Kim Il Sung defeated the only known attempt to oust him and thereby established personal rule beyond either Soviet or Chinese control. The book is based on previously secret Soviet documents from Russian archives, as well as interviews with Russian and Korean participants.Customer Reviews:
A disjointed book.......2006-12-21
Little-known facts abou the early history of North Korea.......2006-01-02
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Kim Il Sung
Dae-Sook Suh Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0231065736 |
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-- American Historical Review
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.
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Napoleonic complex on a national level.......2003-04-24
Good for explainig North KOrea and understanding it........2003-02-04
Very helpful book if visiting North Korea.......2003-01-10
Advanced but Very Good.......2000-07-02
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Prison Writings
Kim Dae Jung , and Schoi Sung-Il Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0520054822 |
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Minjok e han eh ango.......2001-06-16
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Kim Il Sung and Korea's Struggle: An Unconventional Firsthand History
Won Tai Sohn Manufacturer: McFarland & Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0786415894 |
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In 1910, Japan took control over Korea by military and political force. Then, in 1945, Korea was arbitrarily divided by the Soviet Union and the United States into North and South Korea. The Soviets impeded all United Nations efforts to hold elections and reunite the country under one government. Korea has been struggling for independence and reunification ever since.In this memoir, Won Tai Sohn recollects the unusually harsh Japanese treatment of Korean people in Korea, Manchuria, China and Japan, and remembers his close relationship with North Korean president Kim Il Sung from their boyhood to President Kim's sudden death in 1994. According to Dr. Sohn, President Kim devoted his entire life to the liberation of Korea, starting with fighting against the Japanese stationed in North Korea and China. He became the first premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea when it was established in 1948, and led his nation in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. In 1993, President Kim's nuclear program and defense policy became a great concern for the United States when intelligence analysis estimated that North Korea was less than two years away from being able to strike South Korea and Japan with nuclear missiles. President Kim died two months after talks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter about ending North Korea's nuclear program.
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an important piece of the puzzle that is north korea.......2003-12-28
If your primary interest regarding this book is how the Koreans dealt with the Japanese occupation, then "Kim Il Sung and Korea's Struggle" is well-teamed with Richard Kim's "Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood." On the other hand, if your interest lies primarily in Dr. Sohn's first-hand knowledge of Kim Il-song as a youth, then the book is best teamed with Professor Dae Sook Suh's definitive biography of Kim Il-song.
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History's Villains - Kim Il Sung (History's Villains)
Scott Ingram Manufacturer: Blackbirch Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Board book ASIN: 1410302598 |
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The course of world history has often been set by powerful individuals who had an insatiable hunger for power, wealth, fame, and glory. In many cases, these villains have ruled countries and empires with violence and oppression--inflicting their ideals on innocent people.History's Villains takes a two-sided look at some of history's most influential villains; the series explores simultaneously the influences and experiences that shaped the figure, but does so in the context of the time. What emerges is a unique story about a world that changed a person and a person that changed the world.
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Terrible.......2004-05-08
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North Korea After Kim Il Sung: Continuity or Change? (Hoover Institution Press Publication, No 438)
Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0817994629 |
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A distinguished group of international scholars debates the state of change or continuity in North Korea's post--Kim II Sung regime--shedding light on one of the world's most closed societies, its potential to adapt to post--cold war realities, and the prospects for a peaceful and stable Korean peninsula.
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Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il (Major World Leaders)
Rachel A. Koestler-Grack Manufacturer: Chelsea House Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0791076482 |
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Brief History of the Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Kim Il Sung
Manufacturer: Foreign Languages Publishing House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FGVZB2 |
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River of Traps: A Village Life
William De Buys , and Alex Harris Manufacturer: Univ of New Mexico Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0826311822 |
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An honest story of an unusual friendship, words & pictures.......1999-07-27
Lovely, lovely, lovely........1999-05-05
A deserving Pulitzer finalist and a NYTimes Notable Book.......1999-01-06
A powerful blend of imagery and interpersonal relationships........1998-10-14
This book is about transitions: young adults, coming of age in world still not comfortable with the overwhelming changes wrought by the turbulent 60s; the politics of water in the southwest; and the transition of a wizened native seer who knows he only has so much time left to impart the wisdom he has gained from his life in the native land he loves.
Never overwritten, but requiring a fair amount of patience, I highly recommend this non-fiction account of three young adults coming into their own, in a new world, only partly of their making.
Four and a half stars.
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River of Traps A Village Life
William and Alex Harris deBuys Manufacturer: U of New Mexico Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000J0SFRQ |
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River of Traps: A Village Life
William and Alex Harris DeBuys Manufacturer: Univ New Mexico ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000GR6WTU |
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My Spy: Memoir of a Cia Wife
Bina C. Kiyonaga Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0380975874 |
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Our story spans fifty years, four continents, three wars, a revolution, five children, two races and one faith. It is the story of an often stormy, sometimes blissful, but never dull marriage. It lasted thirty years - and then death did the parting.
So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. Their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA.
During the darkest days of the Cold War, Bina, as a CIA wife, was initiated into a world of silence. She would learn not to ask who had called at 2:00 A.M., where Joe had disappeared to for days at a time, or why a notorious dictator had shown up at their door unannounced. Joe's "cover' had to be maintained, and no one could be trusted with the truth. Bina would learn to live a lie and lie bravely.
From the surreal intrigue of post-war Japan to the raucous mariachi-band parties of 1960s El Salvador and the "Yankee Go Home" Panama of the 1970s to the planning of a coup d'etat in Brazil, Bina would become Joe's unwitting partner, playing the traditional role of wife and mother for the most untraditional of ends: helping Joe recruit agents. Everything from cocktail parties to the children's swim meets would become possible venues for agent recruitment, every casual acquaintance-even the parish priest-a potential intelligence source. Through Joe's work, Bina was introduced to foreign leaders, military strongmen and influential journalists secretly working with Washington-a cast of like-minded souls who believed, as did Joe and Bina, that the CIA's cause was noble and that its methods served a greater good.
In the end, Bina's story is the story of the spy she loved. Born out in the cold, on an island where being too tall and too western-looking made him a rumor incarnate, Joe Kiyonaga was all the more remarkable for what he became, and overcame. A man with a foothold in many worlds, but at home in none, he was ready to kick over the traces and re-invent himself as the consummate spy.
Only after thirty years, as Joe lay dying, did Bina finally meet the husband she never knew, and hear the full details of the secret life and global cause of which she and their five children had been a part.
This is the story that Joe entrusted to Bina, a story she promised him she would tell. A story of a time to remember, and of a marriage forged by trust and faith in a world full of lies.
Our story spans fifty years, four continents, three wars, a revolution, five children, two races and one faith. It is the story of an often stormy, sometimes blissful, but never dull marriage. It lasted thirty years---and then death did the parting.So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. Their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA.
During the darkest days of the Cold War, Bina, as a CIA wife, was initiated into a world of silence. She would learn not to ask who had called a 2:00 A.M., where Joe had disappeared to for days at a time, or why a notorious dictator had shown up at their door unannounced. Joe's "cover" had to be maintained, and no one could be trusted with the truth. Bina would learn to live a lie and lie bravely.
From the surreal intrigue of post-war Japan to the raucous mariachi-band parties of 1960s El Salvador and the "Yankee Go Home" Panama of the 1970s to the planning of a coup d'etat in Brazil, Bina would become Joe's unwitting partner, playing the traditional role of wife and mother for the most untraditional of ends: helping Joe recruit agents. Everything from cocktail parties to the children's swim meets would become possible venues for agent recruitment; every casual acquaintance---even the parish priest---a potential intelligence source. Through Joe's work, Bina was introduced to foreign leaders, military strongmen and influential journalists secretly working with Washington---a cast of like-minded souls who believed, as did Joe and Bina, that the CIA's cause was noble and that its methods served a greater good.
In the end, Bina's story is the story of the spy she loved.
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very interesting.......2004-09-15
AN EMOTIONAL STORY FIT FOR A KING OR A QUEEN.......2002-12-19
--From the wife's point of view--.......2002-04-16
Bina has an easy style of writing and describes her life with a great deal of wit and humor. I recommend the book to anyone who might be interested in what it was like for the wife and family of a CIA operative.
A truly remarkable story.......2002-02-25
While the details surrounding much of what her husband accomplished during his tenure at the CIA will never be disclosed, Bina has done an excellent job of providing background to lend a certain aura to what her husband was all about. I was awestruck by the devotion she lavished on her husband during good times and in bad. Her faith and her family certainly allowed her to become the women she is today. And is portrayed in the book in a very effective manner.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Despite the minor redundancies throughout the narrative, I think this is a remarkable story...truly something in this book for everyone!
Good Book, Misleading Title.......2001-09-29
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My Spy
Bina Cady Kiyonaga: Memoir of a CIA Wife Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000U3Y1D4 |
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My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife
Bina Cady Kiyonaga Manufacturer: Avon Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NQLZSW |
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I Must Fly
Sheila Scott Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0340042818 Release Date: 1968-11-01 |
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I Must Fly
Johnny Moore Manufacturer: Sugarpine Aviators ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 096587205X |
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A great read!.......1999-09-22
Reviews.......1999-01-27
Former Alaska Bush Pilot and Aviation Safety Consultant John Hein writes, "Ride along with Johnny Moore as he learns to fly, buys his first plane, and makes a living as a commercial pilot. Avgas, adrenaline, and determination are the only things that keep this cool young pilot headed toward success. Johnny and Judy marry and begin their family as he works as a crop duster, fire bomber pilot, and Alaska bush pilot. The ups and downs of flying create an adventure on every leaf of this 383 page autobiography. The stories contain advice and lessons, some learned the hard way. There are safety tips for those who are willing to learn from the mistakes of others. Excellent reading for the pilot or would-be pilot. You will not want to put this book down until you reach the last page, then it will leave you wishing for "Moore."
"I enjoyed this book immensely and was impressed with the author's honesty and frankness. I felt that I was in the cockpit with him as he frantically searched for a place to land his crop duster as he is trapped in a killer ground fog. I shared his grief at the loss of friends or a favorite plane. The cycle of fate predicts whether or not we succeed or lose. Johnny Moore succeeded. Read the book to find out how he did it."
"I Must Fly! has sold so well it is now in reprint. Also its prequel, "Family Centennial" is on the market and available!
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"Whither must I fly?": A key to current plans for a warless world order
Alexander D Mebane Manufacturer: n.p.] ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007HILPC |
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