North Korea, Patrick McEachern
North Korea, Patrick McEachern
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North Korea
What Everyone Needs to Know

Author: Patrick McEachern

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2019


Synopsis

In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. While North Korea is famous for its militarism and nuclear program, South Korea is best known for its economic miracle, familiar to consumers as the producer of Samsung smartphones, Hyundai cars, and even K-pop music and K-beauty. Why have the two Koreas developed politically and economically in such radically different ways? What are the origins of a divided Korean Peninsula? Who rules the two Koreas? How have three generations of the authoritarian Kim dictatorship shaped North Korea? What is the history of North-South relations? Why does the North Korean government develop nuclear weapons? How do powers such as Japan, China, and Russia fit into the mix? What is it like to live in North and South Korea? This book tackles these broad topics and many more to explain what everyone needs to know about South and North Korea.

About Patrick McEachern

Patrick McEachern is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in residence at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He is coauthor of North Korea, Iran, and the Challenge to International Order and the author of Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics. He has been a foreign service officer for sixteen years, serving in Tokyo, Seoul, Washington, DC, and Bratislava, Slovakia. He was a North Korea intelligence analyst at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and North Korea lead at the U.S. embassy in Seoul.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

It's not bad - it's written in a question-and-answer format, which means you learn a lot but the information gets very repetitive. (I think I read that North Korean businesses with e-mails share one e-mail address for the entire office at least three times.) But McEachern has some very poignant insi......more

Goodreads review by Philip

A little repetitive in places, but gives the lay of the land well. Read this and then read Lankov.......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Very informative but highly repetitive in parts......more