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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 26, 2004
A regime as hermetic and seemingly incorrigible as the North Korean dictatorship doesn't easily lend itself to complex and probing analysis. This lightweight treatment is a case in point. Ex-Pentagon official and Fox News commentator Cucullu offers the usual indictment of North Korea as a failed gulag state where millions starve under the absurd personality cult of Kim Jong-Il, a"berserk animal" who must be"put down" because of his nuclear ambitions and involvement in terrorism. He gives an extremely cursory rundown of this now-familiar litany, and, like many other writers, doesn't quite kn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More