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...Kim Jong-Il. With meticulous research, anecdotal evidence, and balanced analysis, Martin lifts the veil North Korea's self-imposed isolation and provides a comprehensive examination of this little understood society and the father-son team who have dominated it for so long.
The book's thirty-seven chapters can be grouped into three categories, dealing with the rise of the Kim Dynasty, life in North Korea, and the future of that country. The most intriguing chapters deal with the rise to power of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Indeed, the father-son team has an aura of mythology, even mysticism, woven around them. For instance, Kim Il-Sung is portrayed as the single most important Korean guerilla fighter against the Japanese colonial occupation.
The next set of chapters focuses on everyday life in...
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