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North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly understood origins of its system of government. He examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1.Revolution on the Margins2. Liberation, Occupation, and the Emerging New Order3. Remaking the People4. Coalition Politics and the United Front5. Planning the Economy6. Constructing Culture7. A Regime of Surveillance8. The People's StateConclusionAppendix A: A Note on SourcesAppendix B: Statements of General Chistiakov on the Soviet Occupation of North Korea, Fall 1945Selected BibliographyIndex