BOOK REVIEW A lose-lose country
NORTH KOREA CONFIDENTIAL: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor & James Pearson Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont, U.S., 2015 Hardback: 224 pagesPrice: AUD$24.99 Reviewed by Luke J. Portelli When we think of North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), we think of nuclear weapons, totalitarianism and the political differences between it and the Western world. Tudor and Pearson’s 2015 book, North Korea Confidential, is a look at present-day North Korea using a political, economic and sociological lens to observe the building blocks that make North Korea what it is today and what…
