Historical Dictionary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

It is not a criticism to point out that in many of the volumes of Scarecrow's long series of historical dictionaries, a good deal of the information contained in them could easily be found in other works of reference. That could not be said of this latest addition to the series; so mysterious are the affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that most Western readers would know little of it beyond the names of its dynastic succession of leaders. The author of this volume (which is not a new edition of the one that Scarecrow published in 2003,...