Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics

摘要

Patrick McEachern, a former State Department analyst on North Korea, has produced an interesting study on a seemingly unknowable subject,the internal political dynamics of the most reclusive totalitarian regime in the world. Rejecting the popular view that 'only one man matters in North Korea', he argues that Tyongyang's divergent policy choices reflect, in part, different views and interests within the state' (p. 4). Therefore, internal politics should not be dismissed in the Western debate about how to deal with this regime.