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The journal was established in 2005 by INKS and McFarland & Company. [2] [3] It publishes policy-oriented articles, short papers, commentaries, and case studies on all aspects of North Korea, including culture, history, economics, business, religion, politics, and international relations. [1] The founding editor of North Korean Review is Suk Hi ...
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a 2010 book by Brian Reynolds Myers.Based on a study of the propaganda produced in North Korea for internal consumption, Myers argues that the guiding ideology of North Korea is a race-based far-right nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of communism.
Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, as one of "PW's Picks", and described it as "one of the best and most accessible recent accounts" of North Korea. [ 3 ] Kirkus Reviews describes the book as "A well-reasoned survey".
Human-rights discourse in North Korea has a history that predates the establishment of the state in 1948. Based on Marxist theory, Confucian tradition, and the Juche idea, North Korean human-rights theory regards rights as conditional rather than universal, holds that collective rights take priority over individual rights, and that welfare and subsistence rights are important.
Lee acknowledged that North Korea is the most opaque nation in the world, with its regime stringently limiting the information that its own population has access to, as well as the information that is shared with the outside world. Further, North Korea is adept at "strategic deception;" sending out mixed and misleading signals. [42]
Poverty in North Korea has been widely repeated by Western media sources [2] [3] [4] with the majority referring to the famine that affected the country in the mid-1990s. [5] A 2006 report suggests that North Korea required an estimated 5.3m tonnes of grain per year while harvesting only an estimated 4.5m tonnes, and thus relies on foreign aid ...
North Korea has a high level of security and secrecy. Communication with the outside world is limited, and internal communication also seems limited at times. [15] Reporters Without Borders describes North Korea as the world's most closed country, [33] ranking it last in the Press Freedom Index. [34]
The Korean peninsula, with China and Russia as its Northern neighbors, and Japan to the East and South. Korea had for centuries been a high-ranking tributary state within the Imperial Chinese tributary system, [i] until in the late 19th century Japan began to assert greater control over the Korean peninsula, culminating in its annexation in 1910.