This is a list of works important to the study of North Korea.

Contents

• General reference
• Bibliographies
• Geography
• Government and politics
• Foreign relations
• Military
• History
• Korean War
• Culture
• Economy and infrastructure
• Education
• See also

General reference

• Buzo, Adrian, ed. (2020). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN   978-0-429-80399-4.
• Cumings, Bruce (2011). North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press. ISBN   978-1-59558-739-8.
• A Handbook on North Korea (1st revised ed.). Seoul: Naewoe Press. 1998. OCLC   469900828.
• Hoare, James E. (2019). Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Second ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-5381-1974-7.
• Hoare, James E. (2005). North Korea in the Twenty-First Century, an Interpretive Guide. Kent: Global Oriental Ltd. ISBN   978-1901903966.
• Kim, Ilpyong J. (2003). Historical Dictionary of North Korea. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-4331-8.
• North Korea Handbook. Seoul: Yonhap News Agency. 2002. ISBN   978-0-7656-3523-5.
• Understanding North Korea. Seoul: Institute for Unification Education, Ministry of Unification. 2017. OCLC   1013975057.
• Smith, Hazel; et al., eds. (1996). North Korea in The New World Order. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN   978-0333626337.
• Sweeney, J (2013). North Korea Undercover, Inside the World's Most Secretive State. London: Transworld Publishers. ISBN   978-0552170345.
• Worden, Robert L., ed. (2008). North Korea: A Country Study (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. ISBN   978-0-16-088278-4.

Geography

• Corfield, Justin (2014). Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang. London: Anthem Press. ISBN   978-1-78308-341-1.

Government and politics

• Buzo, Adrian (2017). The Guerilla Dynasty: Politics and Leadership in North Korea (Second ed.). New York: Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-28497-0.
• Cha, Victor (2012). The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN   978-1-4481-3958-3.
• Fifield, Anna (2019). The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un. PublicAffairs. ISBN   978-1541742482.
• French, Paul (2016). Our Supreme Leader: The Making of Kim Jong-un. London: Zed Books. ISBN   978-1-78360-900-0.
• Kihl, Young W. (1984). Politics and Policies in Divided Korea: Regimes in Contest. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN   978-0-86531-700-0.
• Lankov, Andrei (2014). The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia (Fully updated and revised ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-939003-8.
• McEachern, Patrick (2010). Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-52680-7.
• Myers, B.R. (2011). The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. Brooklyn: Melville House. ISBN   978-1-935554-97-4.
• Myers, B.R. (2015). North Korea's Juche Myth. Busan: Sthele Press. ISBN   978-1-5087-9993-1.
• Pak, Jung H. (2020). Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN   978-1-9848-1972-7.
• Scalapino, Robert A.; Chong-Sik Lee (1972). Communism in Korea: The Movement. Vol. 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   0-520-02274-2.
• Scalapino, Robert A.; Chong-Sik Lee (1972). Communism in Korea: The Society. Vol. 2. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN   0-520-02274-2.
• Suh, Dae-Sook (1981). Korean Communism, 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN   978-0-8248-0740-5.
• Suh, Dae-sook (1988). Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   0231065736.
• Yang, Sung Chul (1994). The North and South Korean Political Systems: A Comparative Analysis. Boulder: Westview. ISBN   9788972250210.

History

• Buzo, Adrian (2004). The Making of Modern Korea. London: Routledge. ISBN   0-203-64512-X.
• Cumings, Bruce (2005). Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN   978-0-393-34753-1.
• Hunter, Helen-Louise (1999). Kim Il-song's North Korea. Westport: Praeger. ISBN   978-0-275-96296-8.
• Lankov, Andrei (2002). From Stalin to Kim Il Song: The Formation of North Korea, 1945-1960. London: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN   978-1-85065-563-3.
• Lankov, Andrei (2007). Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN   978-0-8248-3207-0.
• Oberdorfer, Don; Carlin, Robert (2013). The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Revised and updated third ed.). New York: Basic Books. ISBN   978-0-465-05088-8.
• Robinson, Michael Edson (2007). Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey: A Short History. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN   978-0-8248-3174-5.
• Seth, Michael J. (2018). North Korea: A History. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN   978-1-352-00219-5.
• Szalontai, Balázs (2005). Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-5322-7.

Culture

• Demick, Barbara (2010). Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Paperback ed.). New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN   978-0-385-52391-2.
• Fischer, Paul (2015). A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power. New York: Flatiron Books. ISBN   978-0-241-96999-1.
• Gabroussenko, Tatiana (2010). Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN   978-0-8248-6078-3.
• Hassig, Ralph; Oh, Kongdan (2009). The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-0-7425-6718-4.
• Howard, Keith (2020). Songs for 'Great Leaders': Ideology and Creativity in North Korean Music and Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-007752-5.
• Kim, Suk-Young (2010). Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN   978-0-472-02689-0.
• Lankov, Andrei (2014). North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-5141-8.
• Myers, Brian (1994). Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK. Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University. ISBN   978-0-939657-84-1.
• Portal, Jane (2005). Art Under Control in North Korea. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN   978-1-86189-236-2.
• Schönherr, Johannes (2012). North Korean Cinema: A History. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-6526-2.

Economy and infrastructure

• Schwekendiek, Daniel (2011). A Socioeconomic History of North Korea. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-8541-3.
• Winstanley-Chesters, Robert (2020). Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours: Vibrant Matter(s). Singapore: Springer Open. doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0042-8. ISBN   978-981-15-0042-8. S2CID   203625857.

Education

• Kim, Hyung-chan; Kim, Dong-kyu (2005). Human Remolding in North Korea: A Social History of Education. Lanham: University Press of America. ISBN   978-0-7618-3172-3.

See also

• Outline of North Korea
• Wikipedia:List of bibliographies
• North Korean studies
• Kim Il-sung bibliography
• Kim Jong-il bibliography
• Kim Jong-un bibliography