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Week VII:
November 15th and 17th : North Korea through the Famine
Tuesday: The Establishment of North Korea
Thursday: Kim Jong Il, the Collapse of Communism, and the Famine
Term Paper Due Sunday November 20th on Canvas by 11:59pm
Discussion topic (summary due)
- What were the cases of the famine?
- What were the consequences to Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un because of the famine?
- Why do the North Korean people put up with repression without rebelling? (Alternative question: what does the North Korean regime seem to offer to its subjects that makes them see a future?)
Reading:
- Abrahamian, Being in North Korea, chaps 2-6
- Sandra Fahy, "A Short History of the North Korean Famine," In Marching through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) pp183-201 (available electronically through UW library)
- Optional:
- Lankov, Kwak and Cho, "The Organizational Life: Daily Surveillance and Daily Resistance in North Korea" Journal of East Asian Studies 12 (2012): 193-214. (available electronically in UW library)
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