North Korea On the Inside Looking In eBook Dualta Roughneen
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North Korea remains one of the last bastions of old-style communism a military dictatorship, ruled with an iron grip for the last sixty years by the Kim dynasty. Every aspect of society is rigidly controlled; a country of paranoia, propaganda, and juche.
Irish Engineer, Dualta Roughneen, experienced the trials and tribulations of North Korea from 2004 to 2007 as an aid agency worker - keeping notes of his observations and thoughts. Based in the capital, but with access to towns and the countryside outside Pyongyang, he was able to see inside this most secretive of countries, beyond the picture of a socialist paradise portrayed on officially sanctioned tours.
Beautifully written, with a gentle humour, and offering eye-opening insights of life in the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ consistently denied to the few tourists and formally approved visitors that venture in, the book superbly observes Korean politics, the people, freedoms, and hardships, (as well as a bit of food and shopping). It details the day-to-day idiosyncrasies of being a foreigner in this most strange and unusual country.
Living as a foreigner in North Korea is like watching television with the sound off.
North Korea On the Inside Looking In eBook Dualta Roughneen
This is not a book on the subject of North Korea; it is a diary of someone who was in North Korea at the time if writing. Read this after, preferably, many other books on North Korea.It’s not that it is uninteresting, nor that it is wrong in general, it’s just that it is not really about North Korea and contains much that is a result of first impressions and is flat our false regarding the country and its population. As the author admits early on (Introduction, Pg. 6) “I have avoided going back to correct any of my thoughts that may have evolved or been proven wrong…” with the excuse that it would interrupt the narrative of his story. There is no narrative; it wouldn’t. It seems it was just too much work to make corrections if he could make some money publishing it as it stood, inconsistencies and falsehoods be damned. And they are there aplenty.
If you have read much on the purported subject, you will not find much new here, other than the author’s naiveté regarding such subjects as the famine of the ‘90s (Pg. 17; ‘caused by flood and drought’), “reported” Korean workers in the Russian logging camps (Pg. 133; this was written in 2014, for pete’s sake!).
What is editorial rather than journalistic is of equal ‘accuracy’: Yes, all countries erect war memorials, but that does not make all countries equivalent in propaganda (Pg. 107 and several others). No, the people in Sudan are not as (materially) poorly off as North Koreans starving to death (Pg. 45) Roughneen finds he’s not affected by crime and therefore crime is not an issue in North Korea (Pg. 25).
I finished it, hoping for some enlightenment, and finally got a pretty impressive description of the Mass Games, along with (finally) a bit of skepticism.
It gets two stars since the writing does, at times, place you In the countryside.
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North Korea On the Inside Looking In eBook Dualta Roughneen Reviews
A very skilful and personal insight of the apparently all embracing and suffocating State Machine that is the DPRK today.
Worse book on N. Korea that I have ever read.The only thing that the author told us is where he can't do it can't go.
Was more about the author than on the Korean People
all about life inside north korea.hard to beleive living in a country where your every move is watched and you have no rights.
The description of this book is apt "Living in North Korea is like watching television with the sound off."
This book is different from many of the "analyses" of life in North Korea, in that it is a diary of the daily activities and observations of an NGO actually working in the country. Roughneen is an engaging writer. The book provides many apt descriptions of what the life of the "typical" North Korean must be like, and the tremendous challenges that person must face.
I would give it a five...excellent...save for the times the author strays from his analysis of North Korea to his past experiences in Afghanistan and other countries and his personal challenges with smoking.
Fascinating, perplexing, touching, and frustrating. An Irish aid worker with extremely rare access to North Korean society shares his journal of his work, impressions of the country and its people (both official and civilian), and thoughts along the way. I was captivated from the outset. The author hadn't any ideological attachments one way or another that others who've written about North Korea have let seep into their works. He went to help real people and was largely successful, and I think he should be quite proud of his efforts. This book is a very human look at a very inhuman system. I highly recommend it.
This is not a book on the subject of North Korea; it is a diary of someone who was in North Korea at the time if writing. Read this after, preferably, many other books on North Korea.
It’s not that it is uninteresting, nor that it is wrong in general, it’s just that it is not really about North Korea and contains much that is a result of first impressions and is flat our false regarding the country and its population. As the author admits early on (Introduction, Pg. 6) “I have avoided going back to correct any of my thoughts that may have evolved or been proven wrong…” with the excuse that it would interrupt the narrative of his story. There is no narrative; it wouldn’t. It seems it was just too much work to make corrections if he could make some money publishing it as it stood, inconsistencies and falsehoods be damned. And they are there aplenty.
If you have read much on the purported subject, you will not find much new here, other than the author’s naiveté regarding such subjects as the famine of the ‘90s (Pg. 17; ‘caused by flood and drought’), “reported” Korean workers in the Russian logging camps (Pg. 133; this was written in 2014, for pete’s sake!).
What is editorial rather than journalistic is of equal ‘accuracy’ Yes, all countries erect war memorials, but that does not make all countries equivalent in propaganda (Pg. 107 and several others). No, the people in Sudan are not as (materially) poorly off as North Koreans starving to death (Pg. 45) Roughneen finds he’s not affected by crime and therefore crime is not an issue in North Korea (Pg. 25).
I finished it, hoping for some enlightenment, and finally got a pretty impressive description of the Mass Games, along with (finally) a bit of skepticism.
It gets two stars since the writing does, at times, place you In the countryside.
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