North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal me
asure. The world's most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison
camps, allows no access to the Internet and bans its people from talking to for
eigners without official approval. In this remarkable and eye-opening book, inte
rnationally best-selling author Paul French examines in forensic detail the hist
ory and politics of North Korea, Pyongyang's complex relations with South Korea,
Japan, China and America, and the implications of Kim Jong-un's increasingly be
lligerent leadership following the death of his father, Kim Jong-il.
