[KS] Publication Announcement: April 6th Release of Stanford University Press Book on the History of North Korea-Third World relations

Benjamin Young byoun3 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 12:44:59 EDT 2021


I just wanted to let fellow Koreanists know that my Stanford University
Press book on North Korea and the Third World will be released on April
6th. It is only $28 for soft cover on the SUP website. I sincerely hope the
book is both interesting and unique in the field of Korean studies. Here is
a link to the book on the SUP website:
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31620
<https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31620&fbclid=IwAR2L-0BXS0Dp9O5etFjcwNFdUoeyhwgP39wB5Wi1THbZEwYb_7MR_ShITJw>

A description of the book:
"Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the
international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among
Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist
Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea
occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet
client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements,
trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and completed building projects
in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third
World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a
unified anti-imperialist front that stretched from the boulevards of
Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the beaches of Cuba. This
book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World
from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how
Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula,
ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals.
Based on multinational and multi-archival research, this book examines the
intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in
which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world."

Best,
Benjamin R. Young, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dakota State University (until May 2021 and then
moving to VCU as an Assistant Professor in Summer 2021)
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