Hazel Smith’s North Korea: Markets and Military Rule

Hazel Smith has written a sweeping book on North Korea that summarizes her long engagement with the country entitled—quite simply—North Korea: Markets and Military Rule. Despite our differences—on which more below—I am in fundamental agreement with the basics suggested by the title: that the country is some kind of hybrid family-military dictatorship—with all of the foreign policy implications that flow from that fact—and it is simultaneously a state socialist economy that is fraying badly as a

Source: Peterson Institute (PIIE)