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Title: Muckraking at it's most selective.
Review: When you ignore all evidence from North Korean escapees about life in the country, NK isn't that bad of a place to live. Great Job, Cumings.That being said, his history of ancient Korea is engaging, and help explains NK's xenophobia. And his histories of SK and the Korean war are muckrakingly delicious.But his piss-poor (almost muck-free) chapter on NK undermines all that.
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