Much discussed and often maligned, precious little is known or understood about North Korea, the world's most controversial and isolated country. Victor Cha pulls back the curtain, providing an unprecedented insight into North Korea's history, the rise of the Kim family dynasty, and the obsessive personality cult that surrounds them. "The Impossible State" illuminates the repressive regime's complex economy and culture, its appalling record of human-rights abuses, its belligerent relationship wi. ..
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