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Possible North Korea

Possible North Korea Book Review Essay: North Korea: Markets and Military Rule by Hazel Smith. Cam­ bridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 394 pp. Bibliog­ raphy. Index. $39.00 (paperback) North Korea Con fid ential: Private Markets, Fas hion Tr ends, Prison Camps, Dissenters, and Defectors by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson. New York: Tuttle, 2015 . 224 pp. 49 color photo­ graphs. Index. $19.95 (hardcover) Marching through Su ff ering: Loss and Survival in North Korea by Sandra Fahy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 . 272 pp. Bibliography. Index. $40.00 (hardcover and e-book) What do we know about North Korea, and how do we know it? In much of the Western scholarship and media that discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), this basic epistemological question is answered in contradictory ways. On the one hand, North Korea is portrayed as the most opaque society on earth, where information is carefully regulated and tightly controlled by a state that prevents both outsiders from looking in and its own people from knowledge of the outside world. Yet on the other hand, there is no shortage of pundits in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Europe who will state definitively that they http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Korean Studies Duke University Press

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Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
ISSN
0731-1613
eISSN
2158-1665
DOI
10.1353/jks.2016.0002
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Book Review Essay: North Korea: Markets and Military Rule by Hazel Smith. Cam­ bridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 394 pp. Bibliog­ raphy. Index. $39.00 (paperback) North Korea Con fid ential: Private Markets, Fas hion Tr ends, Prison Camps, Dissenters, and Defectors by Daniel Tudor and James Pearson. New York: Tuttle, 2015 . 224 pp. 49 color photo­ graphs. Index. $19.95 (hardcover) Marching through Su ff ering: Loss and Survival in North Korea by Sandra Fahy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 . 272 pp. Bibliography. Index. $40.00 (hardcover and e-book) What do we know about North Korea, and how do we know it? In much of the Western scholarship and media that discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), this basic epistemological question is answered in contradictory ways. On the one hand, North Korea is portrayed as the most opaque society on earth, where information is carefully regulated and tightly controlled by a state that prevents both outsiders from looking in and its own people from knowledge of the outside world. Yet on the other hand, there is no shortage of pundits in the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Europe who will state definitively that they

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Journal of Korean StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Mar 16, 2016

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