North Korea History

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • By: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

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    • A New History of South and North
    • By: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands....

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    • Inside the World's Most Secret State
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 658 ratings
    • North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching....

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    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,472 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

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    • One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
    • By: Blaine Harden
    • Narrated by: Blaine Harden
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Escape from Camp 14 is the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived....

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    • A History
    • By: Bruce Cumings
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a US home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Bruce Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea....

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,198 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 607 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • By: Jieun Baek
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

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    • The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950....

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    • By: Kyung Moon Hwang
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide listeners from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Eji Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6,186 ratings
    • In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,616 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • One Man's Escape from North Korea
    • By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Martin Brown - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,966 ratings
    • Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste....

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    • By: Travis Jeppesen
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Travis Jeppesen goes beyond the cliches of "taboo tourism" and the "good versus evil" tenor of politicians and media reports. See You Again in Pyongyang is an essential addition to the literature about one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious places....

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    • A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
    • By: Jung H. Pak
    • Narrated by: Jung H. Pak
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert....

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    • Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
    • By: Jack Cheevers
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 529 ratings
    • After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape....

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