<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp586a6eaeyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp22ee1331MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:DE">Dear Korean Studies list members, </span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">please allow me to introduce North Korean Review and
its book review service to you. The purpose of NKR is to provide readers with
an improved understanding of the country’s complexities and the threat it
presents to global stability. International and interdisciplinary, NKR is a
refereed journal published twice a year. Topics include culture, history,
economics, business, religion, politics, and international relations, among
others. </span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">These books are currently available for review: </span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Abrams,
A. B. (2020) Immovable Objects – North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American
Power, Clarity Press Inc. 29.95</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">$</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Cleaver,
Thomas McKelvey: Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign in Korea, Osprey
Publishing. 28 $</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:FR"><span>3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:FR">Gladieu,
Stephane (2020) North Korea. Actes Sud. 35 Euro</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">KEI
(2019) Immediate and Potential future Challenges with North Korea. In: 2019 On
Korea Academic Paper Series Vol. 12, pp. 83.</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Napier,
Michael: Korean Air War: Sabres, MiGs and Meteors, 1950-53, Osprey Publishing</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>6.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">National
Gugak Center (2019) Performing Arts of North Korea, Korean Musicology Series
10.</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>7.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Oh,
Peter (2020) The People’s Paradise – True Stories from North Korea. The
People’s Paradise on Earth. 15$</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>8.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Shin, David W. (2021) Kim Jong-Un’s strategy for
survival. Lexington books.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>9.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Sin, Seonhye S., A 21<sup>st</sup>-Century Socialist
Country: North Korea, Oroeditions, 24,95$</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif"></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 35.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>10.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Benjamin
R. Young, Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader - North Korea and the Third
World ,2021<span> </span></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 32.2pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span>11.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;color:black;background:white">A. B. Abrams, Immovable Object: North Korea's 70
Years At War with American Power, 2020</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.7pt;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-outline-level:1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">E-books:</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Bolton, John: The Room Where It
Happened, a White House memoir, Simon & Schuster Publishing, June 2020</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Napoleoni, Loretta, North Korea: The
Country We Love to Hate,UWA Publishing, December 2018.</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Panda, Ankit: Kim Jong Un and the
Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea, Hurst Publishers, June 2020,
£25.00.</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Reed, Nicole; Scullin, James, Hotels
of Pyongyang, Ulele, 2019.</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Kumar, Krishna B., Troy D. Smith,
Diana Y. Myers, Timothy R. Gulden, and Noah Johnson, From Hermit Kingdom to
Open for Business: Developing a Blueprint for North Korea's Economic
Development. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2021. </span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>6.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Victory Ten (Jeon Yeon Hwa), Robert
Winstanley-Chesters; New Goddesses on Mt. Paektu: transformation, Myth and
Gender in Korean Landscape, 2020</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman"><span>7.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">Daekwon Son; Bringing North Korea to
the negotiating table: unstable foundations of Kim Jong-un’s North Korean
regime; 2019</span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"><span>8.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;color:black;background:white">Kevin Gray,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif"> <span style="color:black;background:white">Jong-Woon Lee: North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development,
2021</span></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"><span>9.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Malgun Gothic">The Art of Getting More Back in
Diplomacy: Negotiation Lessons from North Korea, China, Libya, and the United
Nations by Eric N. Richardson<span> </span>(Author)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;color:black;background:white"></span></p>
<p class="ydp22ee1331MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Times New Roman;color:black"><span>10.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;color:black;background:white">Mysterious Pyongyang: Cosmetics, Beauty Culture
and North Korea 1st ed. 2021 Edition by Nam Sung-wook (Author), Chae Su-lan
(Contributor), Lee Ga-young (Contributor)</span></p>
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