North Korea undercover (Record no. 7026)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780552170345
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 951.930SWE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name John Sweeney.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title North Korea undercover
Remainder of title inside the world's most secret state
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pegasus Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 306 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and big brother is always watching: it is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the country undercover, posing as a university professor with a group of students from the London School of Economics. Huge factories with no staff or electricity, hospitals with no patients, uniformed child soldiers, and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ--the Demilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins--are all framed by a relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line, and the gulag awaits. State spies are everywhere, ready to punish disloyalty at the slightest sign of discontent. Drawing on his own experiences and his extensive interviews with defectors and other key witnesses, Sweeney's North Korea Undercover pulls back the curtain, providing a rare insight into life there today while examining the country's troubled history and addressing important questions about its uncertain future."--Book jacket.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sweeney, John, 1958---Travel--Korea (North)
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Biography 01/17/2025   951.930SWE UR007372 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book