North Korea: Building of the Monolithic State - Tapa blanda

Why has North Korea not collapsed in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union? How has the monolithic state that Kim Il-sung built endured, even after he and his son have died? These chapters from Communism in Korea, the Woodrow Wilson Award winner of the American Political Science Association’s best book of 1974, explain that the North Korean system collapsed during the Korean War and has been rebuilt with the primary goal of defending itself against all internal and external enemies. Chapters 1 and 2 have been revised.

Robert A. Scalapino (deceased) was the Robson Research Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of numerous books on China and Japan. Chong-Sik Lee is a Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and a Distinguished Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea. The two authors won the W. Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Assoc. in 1974 for their book on Communism Korea. Lee's publications include The Politics of Korean Nationalism, Japan and Korea: Political Dimension, and Park Chung-Hee: From Poverty to Power.