North Korea under Communism

Report of an Envoy to Paradise

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Cornell Erik

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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.

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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.

Release date NZ

July 11th, 2002

Author

Cornell Erik

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

202

Dimensions

156x234x10

ISBN-13

9780700716975

Product ID

1681216

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