Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics

Taylor & Francis

Re-Imagining North Korea in International PoliticsProblems and alternatives\nAuthor(s): Shine Choi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138289550, 978-1138289550\nSynopsis\nThe global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a humanitarian crisis and its political repression signals a failed state.\n\nThis book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western popular imaginations engagement with North Korea. Building on works by feminist-postcolonial thinkers, in particular Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow and Gayatri Spivak, it examines novels, films, photography and memoirs for how they engage with issues of security, human rights, humanitarianism and political agency from an intercultural perspective. By doing so.