North Korea: Political, Economic and Social Issues
Marvin Harrison (Editor)
Series: Asian Political, Economic and Social Issues
BISAC: POL054000
This book provides information on the political, economic and social issues of North Korea. Chapter One examines the satellite and missile programmes of North Korea in comparison with those of South Korea and Japan within the wider geopolitical context and US policy. Chapter Two examines the potential of the Six-Party Talks (SPTs) and the prospects of their transformation into a multilateral security mechanism in Northeast Asia. Chapter Three specifically analyzes the 2009 political crisis involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea involving the testing of nuclear capability, abduction, and eventual release, of American journalists, and UN imposition of sanctions against the DPKR between March and August of 2009, in an attempt to understand and identify the symbolic themes utilized in American domestic propaganda and their consequences on the public. Chapter Four reviews information on therapeutically, as well as nutritionally important terrestrial arthropods in North Korea, and provides an examination of the idiomatic roles insects play in North Korean proverbs and sayings. (Imprint: Nova)
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Satellites, Missiles and the Geopolitics of East Asia
Tim Beal (Retired academic, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Chapter 2. An Emergent Path of the Six-Party Talks: Toward Institutional Multilateralism in Northeast Asia
Ki-Joon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Chapter 3. Domestic Propaganda and Press Support: Examining the Obama Administration’s Handling of the 2009 North Korean Nuclear Test
Skye Cooley (Department of Communication, Mississippi State University, USA)
Chapter 4. Information on Therapeutically as well as Nutritionally Important Terrestrial Arthropods in North Korea and an Examination of the Idiomatic Roles Insects Play in North Korean Proverbs and Sayings
V. B. Meyer-Rochow (Department of Genetics and Physiology, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland, and others)
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