Where can I find a good history of the DPRK and Korean Communism ?

[Red Future]

Does anyone have any ideas??

[Battlecat]

Mash?

[Red Future]

Mash?

:laugh:

[Ismail]

Here's a good read on the DPRK's economy and society up to 1981: http://kasamaproject.org/2010/12/06/background-on-north-korea-halliday-explores-enigma/
On Korean Communism and the rise of revisionism see: http://ml-review.ca/aml/China/KoreaNS.htm

[flobdob]

The best single volume on the history of the DPRK and Korean socialism is Brun and Hersh's Socialist Korea. It covers the history of the Korean revolutionary struggle but places special emphasis on the methods and ideas used to construct socialism in the DPRK. Especially good is its emphasis on the Korean solution of the rural problem - the only problem with the book is it only covers the period until the mid 1970s.

Whilst not about Korean communism per se, the best bourgeois sources on the DPRK are Beal's North Korea: The Struggle against US power and Cumings North Korea: Another Country, both of which do a decent job of telling the history of the DPRK and putting it in proper context.

I am aware that Tim Beal will soon be releasing a new book on the Cheonan incident, which will certainly be worth reading upon release.

[Red Future]

Thanks everyone , there are some great suggestions here

[Revy]

The Formation of North Korean State Capitalism (http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=205)