North Korea: What Everyone Needs to Know (R)

Dr. McEachern’s historical review highlights a few things easily forgotten. North Korea’s economy was more industrialized than robust than the South’s as recently as the 1960’s. Only in the 1970’s did South Korea’s economic modernization clearly overtake the North’s. South Korea’s first democratic election occurred in 1988 and there was a peaceful power transition to the political opposition in the 1990’s, consolidating democracy less than 30 years ago. In just 200 pages Dr. McEachern brings the reader up to date on the history, nuclear development, political leadership, regional dynamics and social and economic conditions of North Korea.