Paul French: North Korea – the paranoid peninsula

by Philip Gowman on 17 April, 2006

in Book reviews: DPRK, Book reviews: History

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Highly readable and wide-ranging book on North Korea. Describes clearly some of the eccentricities of the regime, such as the Sinuiju economic zone, and describes clearly for the benefit of non-economists how it is that a rigid centrally-planned economy is doomed to fail.

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