A01=Cornell Erik
Anniversary
Author_Cornell Erik
authoritarian governance studies
Category=JPFC
Category=JPH
Demarcation Line
diplomatic history research
East Asian communism
embassy
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famine policy impacts
Follow
Gorbachev
Holding
ideological indoctrination
ideology
il-sung
Inclined
juche
Juche Ideology
kim
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung's Juche
Kim Il Sung’s Juche
korean
Lorries
Makeup
Mankind
Nep
North
North Korean Embassy
North Korean Foreign Minister
North Koreans
Payments
peninsula
socialist regime survival analysis
socialist state analysis
south
stalin
swedish
Swedish Embassy
Tour
Tv
UN
USA
West Germany
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780700716975
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine. What are the reasons behind this peculiar choice of direction? Why did the leaders in Pyongyang pursue a policy abandoned not only by the Soviet Union, but also by China and Vietnam?
The author of this book spent three years as head of the embassy of Sweden in Pyongyang. Until a few years ago, it was the only Western embassy in North Korea. His unique experiences are related with descriptions of day-to-day life and with analyses of economic, political and ideological conditions. A picture is drawn of a society and a political order that defy both human nature and common sense.
Erik Cornell opened the Embassy of Sweden in North Korea in 1975 and served there as Charge d'Affaires until 1977. He commissioned into the Royal Sea Life Guards in 1953 before entering the University of Stockholm, where he gained a Masters Degree in Political Science. He joined the Swedish Royal Ministory for Foreign Affairs in 1958 and has served in Bonn, Warsaw, Addis Ababa, Rome and Pyongyang. He was appointed Ambassador to West Africa in 1982 and to Turkey from 1990-95. He is author of Turkey in the Twenty-First Century, Curzon Press 2001.
