Bibliography of North Korea explained
This is a list of works important to the study of North Korea.
General reference
- Book: Buzo. Adrian. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea. 2020. Routledge. Oxon. 978-0-429-80399-4.
- Book: Cumings, Bruce. Bruce Cumings
. Bruce Cumings. North Korea: Another Country. 2011. New Press. New York. 978-1-59558-739-8.
- Book: A Handbook on North Korea. 1st revised. 1998. Naewoe Press. Seoul. 469900828.
- Book: Hoare, James E.. James Hoare
. James Hoare. Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Second. 2019. Rowman & Littlefield. Lanham. 978-1-5381-1974-7.
- Book: Hoare, James E.. 2005. North Korea in the Twenty-First Century, an Interpretive Guide. Global Oriental Ltd. Kent. 978-1901903966.
- Book: Kim, Ilpyong J.. Historical Dictionary of North Korea. 2003. Scarecrow Press. Lanham. 978-0-8108-4331-8.
- Book: North Korea Handbook. 2002. Yonhap News Agency. Seoul. 978-0-7656-3523-5.
- Book: Understanding North Korea. 2017. Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification. Seoul. 1013975057.
- Book: Smith. Hazel. Rhodes. Chris. Pritchard. Diana. Magill. Kevin. 1996. North Korea in The New World Order. Macmillan Press. London. 978-0333626337. 1.
- Book: Sweeney, J. North Korea Undercover, Inside the World's Most Secretive State. 2013. Transworld Publishers. London. 978-0552170345.
- Book: Worden. Robert L.. North Korea: A Country Study. 2008. Government Printing Office. 978-0-16-088278-4. Washington, D.C.. 5th.
Bibliographies
- Book: Catalogue of Korean Publications. 2016. Korea Publications Export & Import Corporation. Pyongyang. 978-9946-29-343-1.
- Cha. Victor. Lee. Ji-Young. 2013. Politics of North Korea. Oxford Bibliographies. 10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0109.
- Clemens. Walter C.. North Korea and the World: A Bibliography of Books and URLs in English, 1997–2007. Journal of East Asian Studies. 8. 2. 2016. 293–325. 1598-2408. 10.1017/S1598240800005336.
- Book: Fraser. Stewart E.. Kim. Hyung-chan. Kim. Sun Ho. North Korean Education and Society: A Select and Partially Annotated Bibliography Pertaining to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 1972. University of London Institute of Education. London. 978-0-900008-16-0. 1.
- Web site: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Select Bibliography . Grote . Rainer . Oxford Constitutions of the World . 2008 . Oxford University Press . OCW CM 58 (KP) .
- Book: Guide to Official Publications of Foreign Countries. 1990. American Library Association cop.. Chicago. 470790578. North Korea.
- Halliday. Jon. Bibliographies on Korea. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. 11. 4. 2019. 45–50. 0007-4810. 10.1080/14672715.1979.10424021.
- Halliday. Jon. Further bibliography on North Korea. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. 16. 4. 2019. 56–57. 0007-4810. 10.1080/14672715.1984.10412625.
- Kang. Suk-Young. Watts. Thomas D.. Historical perspectives on North Korea: a brief introduction and bibliography. Journal of Comparative Social Welfare. 28. 3. 2012. 235–240. 1748-6831. 10.1080/17486831.2012.755932. 143582074.
- Kim . Yong-jin. Annotated Bibliography of North Korean Publications in Archaeology . Asian Perspectives . 1971 . 14 . 29–32 . 42927734 .
- Web site: Robinson. Kenneth R.. Korean History Bibliography: North Korea . Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii. October 2011 .
Geography
- Book: Corfield, Justin. Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang. 2014. Anthem Press. London. 978-1-78308-341-1.
Government and politics
- Book: Buzo, Adrian. The Guerilla Dynasty: Politics and Leadership in North Korea. Second. 2017. Routledge. New York. 978-1-317-28497-0.
- Book: Cha, Victor. The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future. 2012. The Bodley Head. London. 978-1-4481-3958-3.
- Book: Fifield, Anna . The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un . 2019 . PublicAffairs . 978-1541742482.
- Book: French, Paul . Our Supreme Leader: The Making of Kim Jong-un . 2016 . Zed Books . London . 978-1-78360-900-0.
- Book: Kihl, Young W.. Politics and Policies in Divided Korea: Regimes in Contest. 1984. Westview Press. Boulder. 978-0-86531-700-0.
- Book: Lankov, Andrei. . Fully updated and revised. 2014. Oxford University Press. New York. 978-0-19-939003-8.
- Book: McEachern, Patrick. Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics. 2010. Columbia University Press. New York. 978-0-231-52680-7.
- Book: Myers, B.R.. The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. 2011. Melville House. Brooklyn. 978-1-935554-97-4.
- Book: Myers, B.R.. North Korea's Juche Myth. 2015. Busan. Sthele Press. 978-1-5087-9993-1.
- Book: Pak, Jung H.. Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator. 2020. Ballantine Books. New York. 978-1-9848-1972-7.
- Book: Scalapino. Robert A.. Chong-Sik Lee. Communism in Korea: The Movement. 1. 1972. University of California Press. Berkeley. 0-520-02274-2.
- Book: Scalapino. Robert A.. Chong-Sik Lee. Communism in Korea: The Society. 2. 1972. University of California Press. Berkeley. 0-520-02274-2.
- Book: Suh, Dae-Sook. Korean Communism, 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System. 1981. Honolulu. The University Press of Hawaii. 978-0-8248-0740-5.
- Book: Suh, Dae-sook . Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader . New York . Columbia University Press . 1988 . 0231065736 .
- Book: Yang, Sung Chul. The North and South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis. 1994. Westview. Boulder. 9788972250210.
Foreign relations
- Book: Kim, Ilpyong J.. Two Koreas in transition: implications for U.S. policy. 1998. In Depth Books. Rockville. 978-0-88702-067-4.
- Book: Gills, BR. Korea Verses Korea, a Case of Contested Legitimacy. 1996. Routledge. London.
- Schapiro. RA. June 1963. The Foreign Policy of North Korea. The China Quarterly. 14. 30-50.
- Book: Young, B. 2017. A Revolutionary State: North Korea's Support of Non-State Actors, Past Policies and Future Issues. Academic Paper Series. Korean Economic Institute of America. Washington, D.C..
Military
- Book: Bermudez, Joseph S.. 2001 . Shield of the Great Leader: The Armed Forces of North Korea . Allen & Unwin . Sydney . 978-1-86448-582-0.
- Book: Mitzer. Stijn. Oliemans. Joost. North Korea's Armed Forces: On the Path of Songun. 2015. Helion. Solihull. 978-1-910777-14-5.
History
- Book: Buzo, Adrian. The Making of Modern Korea. 2004. Routledge. London. 0-203-64512-X.
- Book: Cumings, Bruce. Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. Updated. 2005. W. W. Norton. New York. 978-0-393-34753-1.
- Book: Hunter, Helen-Louise. Kim Il-song's North Korea. 1999. Praeger. Westport. 978-0-275-96296-8.
- Book: Lankov, Andrei. From Stalin to Kim Il Song: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. 2002. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. London. 978-1-85065-563-3.
- Book: Lankov, Andrei. Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. 2007. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 978-0-8248-3207-0.
- Book: Oberdorfer. Don. Carlin. Robert. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History. Revised and updated third. 2013. Basic Books. New York. 978-0-465-05088-8.
- Book: Robinson, Michael Edson. Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey: A Short History. 2007. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 978-0-8248-3174-5.
- Book: Seth, Michael J.. North Korea: A History. 2018. Macmillan International Higher Education. 978-1-352-00219-5.
- Book: Szalontai, Balázs. Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964. 2005. Stanford University Press. Stanford. 978-0-8047-5322-7.
Korean War
- Book: Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947. 1. 1981. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-10113-2.
- Book: Cumings, Bruce. The Origins of the Korean War: Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950. 2. 1981. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-10113-2.
- Book: Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. 2010. The Modern Library. New York. 978-0-679-60378-8.
- Book: MacDonald, C. 1990. Britain and the Korean War. Basil Blackwell Ltd. Oxford. 978-0631167716.
Culture
- Book: Demick, Barbara. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. Paperback. 2010. New York. Spiegel & Grau. 978-0-385-52391-2.
- Book: Fischer, Paul. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power. 2015. New York. Flatiron Books. 978-0-241-96999-1.
- Book: Gabroussenko, Tatiana. Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy. 2010. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 978-0-8248-6078-3.
- Book: Hassig. Ralph. Oh. Kongdan. 2009. The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom. Plymouth. Rowman & Littlefield . 978-0-7425-6718-4.
- Book: Howard, Keith. Songs for 'Great Leaders': Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance. 2020. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 978-0-19-007752-5.
- Book: Kim, Suk-Young. Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea. 2010. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 978-0-472-02689-0.
- Book: Lankov, Andrei. North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. 2014. McFarland. Jefferson. 978-0-7864-5141-8.
- Book: Myers, Brian. Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK. 1994. East Asia Program, Cornell University. Ithaca. 978-0-939657-84-1.
- Book: Portal, Jane . 2005 . Art Under Control in North Korea . London. Reaktion Books . 978-1-86189-236-2.
- Book: Schönherr, Johannes. North Korean Cinema: A History. 2012. Jefferson. McFarland. 978-0-7864-6526-2.
Economy and infrastructure
Education
- Book: Kim. Hyung-chan. Kim. Dong-kyu. Human Remolding in North Korea: A Social History of Education. 2005. University Press of America. Lanham. 978-0-7618-3172-3.
See also