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Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and completed building projects in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a unified anti-imperialist front that stretched from the boulevards of Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the beaches of Cuba. This book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula, ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals. Based on multinational and multi-archival research, this book examines the intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)327.519301724Social sciences Political Science International Relations Asia China & Korea Korean Peninsula North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Situating North Korea within the historiography of other small nations during the Cold War, Young writes, “The leaders of these small Communist governments [in Pyongyang, Havana, and Hanoi] understood the necessity of forming a unified internationalist front of Third Worldism as the great Communist powers could not always be relied upon as protectors of the world revolution” (pg. 16). Kim Il Sung capitalized on North Korea’s reputation as having defeated the U.S. during the Korean War for cachet among Third World nations (pg. 27). Further, North Korean leadership broke with larger Communist countries when they “privately criticized the Chiense for their lack of cooperation in assisting the Vietnamese” (pg. 40). Kim Il Sung sought to export both Juche and his own cult of personality beyond North Korea’s borders, though Kimilsungism often failed to reach a broader audience due to many of the logistical issues in exporting his philosophies (pgs. 59, 79). Juche, however, succeeded, and even made inroads in the United States among the Black Panther Party (pg. 66). By the mid-1970s, however, North Korea used the Third World to advance its own nationalist agenda and directly compete with South Korea (pg. 74). Similarly, Kim saw foreign conflicts such as the Yom Kippur War as an opportunity for training his own military (pg. 83). Kim Jong Il, the heir to Kim Il Sung, reframed Juche as a form of native chauvinism divorced from Marxism-Leninism as he escalated tensions through military support in exchange for cash and terrorist activities (pgs. 97, 124, 135).
Young’s work offers an alternative perspective on the Cold War beyond the focus on ideological conflict between the U.S. and larger countries such as the Soviet Union or China. His analytical focus guides the reader that may be unfamiliar with the history of North Korea as he teases out the significance of their influence in areas as disparate as northern Africa, the Caribbean, islands in the Pacific, and Compton, California. He crafts a narrative that explains how the Kim government managed to attain early international recognition beyond the Second World in such a way that it can still make inroads among developing nations thirty years after the end of the Cold War. Young further explains how the Kim regime transitioned from a focus on exporting ideological concepts to a rogue state involved in terrorism through the government’s excessive spending on vanity projects. Despite the current popular view of North Korea as backward, these vanity projects and ideological exports created a lasting nostalgia in the former Third World for “a bygone era when the DPRK was truly the Global Korea” (pg. 151). ( )