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Week of June 1, 2010

In the News: South Korea has accused North Korea for the March 26 sinking of a naval warship near a disputed maritime border. Calling the accusations a “fabrication,” North Korea has indicated that a “full-scale war” on its neighbor to the South is not out of the question. This week, books and DVDs on the two Koreas.

Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee
By Hwasook Nam. University of Washington Press, 2009
Call Number: HD8039 .S52 K663 2009

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
By B. R. Myers. Melville House, 2010
Call Number: HN730.6 .Z9 M66 2010

A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
By Michael J. Seth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
Call Number: DS907.18 .S424 2010 (At Jupiter)

Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country
By Mike Kim. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Call Number: HN730.6 .A K5245 2008

Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War
By Grace M. Cho. University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Call Number: E184 .K6 C473 2008 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom
By Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
Call Number: DS932.7 .H37 2009

Kim Jong Il’s Leadership of North Korea
By Jae-Cheon Lim. Routledge, 2009
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization
By Kevin Gray. Routledge, 2008
Call Number: HD8730.5 .G73 2008

Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey
By Michael E. Robinson. University of Hawaii Press, 2007
Call Number: DS916 .R63 2007

The North Korean Economy: Between Crisis & Catastrophe
By Nicholas Eberstadt. Transaction Publishers, 2007
Call Number: HC470.2 .E255 2007

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By Barbara Demick. Spiegel & Grau, 2010
Call Number: HN730.6 .A8 D46 2009

Nuclear Endgame: The Need for Engagement with North Korea
By Jacques L. Fuqua Jr. Praeger Security International, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Perspectives on U.S. Policy Toward North Korea: Stalemate or Checkmate?
Edited by Sharon Richardson. Lexington Books, 2006
Call Number: E183.8 .K7 P47 2006

The President’s Last Bang (DVD)
Directed by Im Sangsoo. Kino, 2006
Call Number: PN1997.2 .P7375 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance
By Nathan Hesselink. University of Chicago Press, 2006
Call Number: ML3752.7 .C5 H47 2006

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
By Charles Robert Jenkins with Jim Frederick. University of California Press, 2008
Call Number: DS921.6 .J44 2008 (At Jupiter)

Seoul Train (DVD)
Directed by Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky, and Lisa Sleeth. New Day Films, 2008
Call Number: HV640.5 .K67 S38 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

South Korea in the Fast Lane: Economic Development and Capital Formation
By Young-Iob Chung. Oxford University Press, 2007
Call Number: HC467.9 .C48 2007