Ebook {Epub PDF} North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings

Cumings writes in his book North Korea: Another Country: "I have no sympathy for the North, which is the author of most of its own troubles," but he alludes to the "significant responsibility that all Americans share for the garrison state that emerged on the ashes of . North Korea: Another Country, by Bruce Cumings. New York: New Press, pp. $ cloth, $ paper. A quarter century has gone by since publication of the first volume of Bruce Cumings's landmark Origins of the Korean War, a solid, beautifully argued, and meticulously documented study that established its author as among the pre.  · Bruce Cumings has written this wistful little gem of a book in hopes of bringing some understanding to Americans about this strange, sad, little country. I write this without irony: he actually likes North Korea the way that some feminists used to like the idea of living in purdah (safe, protected, without men much), and some still love Cuba.

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How refreshing that a highly respected academic power-house like Bruce Cummings can cur through the usual anti-North Korea bias and propaganda, and tell the story of what happened in Korea and how it happened, with honesty and clear-headedness that exposes the many popular myths and assumptions about North Korea to be nothing more than complete fantasy with no historical base. North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings starts off as a very slow read. The book is divided into six chapters yet the first two--about the history of the Korean War and the DPRK's nuclear record--take up the first half of the book just between themselves. It took me so long just to get through these two chapters. Another Country. Bruce Cumings. The New Press, 10 de mai. de - páginas. 0 Resenhas. Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea—charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil"—is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles capable of delivering them to America's West Coast.