Category: Volume 11
Perhaps it is invidious to pose my title in the form of a question: bamboo curtain or open door? It is not that it is always impossible to establish the truth about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). It is more that, having arrived at the truth, one is more than likely to conclude that the opposite is equally true. As Bruce Cumings, especially in his book Korea’s Place in the Sun: A...