Kim Il-Song's North Korea

A declassified CIA study, first written during the 1980s, provides a glimpse inside Kim Il-song's totalitarian cult society of North Korea, detailing the everyday lives of ordinary people and the elite living in one of the most isolated, secretive societies of the 20th century. Illuminates not only the politically repressive and psychologically crushing realities of daily life there, but also the operative mechanisms through which the regime kept its people in a state of subservience. Includes b&w photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

HELEN-LOUISE HUNTER is an attorney who has engaged in private practice with an large international law firm in Washington, D.C. and has served as Permanent Law Clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland./e For more than 20 years, she was a Far East specialist at the CIA. In the late 1970s, she served as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Far East.