Political History Korea

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands....

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    • By: Kyung Moon Hwang
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide listeners from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience....

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    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • By: Jieun Baek
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

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    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • By: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,196 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 604 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

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    • The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
    • By: Bradley Hope
    • Narrated by: Lee Osorio
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it....

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    • By: Travis Jeppesen
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Travis Jeppesen goes beyond the cliches of "taboo tourism" and the "good versus evil" tenor of politicians and media reports. See You Again in Pyongyang is an essential addition to the literature about one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious places....

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    • The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
    • By: Anna Fifield
    • Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 232 ratings
    • The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea....

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    • The Unending Conflict in Korea
    • By: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
    • Narrated by: Jackie Chung
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A major historical account of the Korean War, its origins, and its evolving impact on the world. Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Patrick McEachern
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format....

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    • The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
    • By: Robert S. Boynton
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos....

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    • The Flawed Genius Who Challenged the American Political System
    • By: Bevin Alexander
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Douglas MacArthur famously said there is no substitute for victory....

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    • The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
    • By: Sir Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Throughout history, the concept of command—as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority—has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political....

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    • Defending Outpost Harry
    • By: James W. Evans
    • Narrated by: Matt Armstrong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • With this book, one of those scarred by that experience recounts the events of the battle and his lifelong efforts to deal with the residual horrors....

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    • A One-of-a-Kind Journey Inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine
    • By: Anna Broinowski
    • Narrated by: Emma Fenney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • When Anna Broinowski learned that fracking had invaded downtown Sydney, she had a brilliant idea: she would seek guidance for a kryptonite-powerful, anti-fracking movie....

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    • By: Jung H. Pak
    • Narrated by: Jung H. Pak
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state. He now possesses weaponry capable of threatening America and its allies, and his actions have already significantly changed global politics....

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