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Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994

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• Korea (North) -- Politics and government

• Revolution and Socialist Construction in Korea: Selected Writings of Kim Il Sung (New York: International Publishers, c1971), by Kim Il Song (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report (New York: Soviet Russia Today, 1949), by Anna Louise Strong
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at marxists.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Division System in Crisis: Essays on Contemporary Korea (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2011), by Paek Nak-Chong, contrib. by Bruce Cumings (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• North Korea: A Case Study in the Techniques of Takeover (Dept. of State Publication 7118, Far Eastern Series 103; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Korea's Political and Economic Structure (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1959), by Philip Rudolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps: Prisoners' Testimonies and Satellite Photographs (second edition; Washington, DC: U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, c2012), by David R. Hawk (PDF at hrnk.org)
• The Hidden Gulag: Putting Human Rights on the North Korea Policy Agenda: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First session, November 4, 2003 (Washington: GPO, 2003), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF and text at govinfo.gov
• With the Century, by Kim Il Song
  • PDF at korea-dpr.com
  • divided into 8 parts: PDF files at naenera.com.kp
• North Korea : the foundations for military strength. (Defense Intelligence Agency, 1991), by United States. Defense Intelligence Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• second in series (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2006), by Andrew Scobell and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kim Il Sung's North Korea : At the crossroads (Strategic and Defense Studies Centre, Australian National University, 1986), by Gary Klintworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• In search of a new identity : revival of traditional politics and modernisation in post-Kim Il Sung North Korea (Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1995), by Alexandre Y Mansourov and Australian National University. Dept. of International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Korea : power play or buying butter with guns? (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, 2004), by Ronald Huisken and Australian National University. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (page images at HathiTrust)
• The security situation on the Korean Peninsula : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights and Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, February 24, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by International Organizations United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. policy toward North Korea : hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 3, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Korea nuclear agreement : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, January 24 and 25, 1995. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1995), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Korea, an overview : hearing before the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, September 12, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• North Korea : human rights update and international abduction issues : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, April 27, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and Global Human Rights United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding the North Korea problem : why it has become the "land of lousy options" (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011), by William A. Boik and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Korean futures : challenges to U.S. diplomacy of North Korean regime collapse (National Defense University Press, 2011), by Ferial Ara Saeed, James J. Przystup, and National Defense University. Center for Strategic Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Military-first politics to a point (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2006), by Ken E Gause and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The North Korean nuclear challenge : is there a way forward? : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, February 17, 2005. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2005), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation (page images at HathiTrust)

• North Korea : illicit activity funding the regime : hearing before the Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, April 25, 2006. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2007), by Government Information United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management (page images at HathiTrust)

• Directory of North Korean officials. (Directorate of Intelligence, in the 20th century), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence (page images at HathiTrust)

• Future of North Korea's Kim Jong Il regime (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2008), by Andrew Scobell and Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute (page images at HathiTrust)