1st Edition

Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics Problems and alternatives

By Shine Choi Copyright 2015
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

The 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. This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and... Read more

Introduction: What North Korea Problem? Problematising the International in the ‘North Korea Problem’, 1. International Relations, Interrupted: Issues of Positionality and Intercultural Relations, 2. Displacing the Detective Eye/I: Seeing Translation and Mediation, 3. What ‘Seeing’ Suffering Demands of Us: Photographic Engagements with North Korea(ns), 4. I Love You, You Love me? Conflict, Melodrama and Reconciliation, South Korean Blockbuster Style, 5. Objecting Objects: Be(com)ing North Koreans in an Affective World, Conclusion: How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea? It Depends on Who You Are

Biography

Shine Choi is Korea Foundation Visiting Professor at University of Mississippi, USA.

"We were engaged in no uncertain terms by this extraordinary book.

 — Adam Cathcart, Editor-in-Chief