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An important visual record of North Korea's history and development , Don Oberdorfer, author of The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Chris Springer in assembling this remarkable book had to come to grips with the fact that, because of official strictures that severely limited photography - there are few remaining photos from the period covered that were not disseminated by the regime's own propaganda authorities. - Anyone interested in North Korea's early days will want to own and peruse this revealing volume and shelve it next to the mere handful of earlier published pictorial histories... Bradley K. Martin, author of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty Chris Springer's fascinating book is full of unseen, unexpected, and arresting photographs of North Korea in the midst of war and reconstruction. [...] These priceless photos are an indelible tribute to the resilience of the Korean people. , Bruce Cumings, chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago and author of Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History.

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California-born Chris Springer is the author of Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital. He also curated the 2002 exhibition Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Budapest. His research focuses on North Korean domestic history. He has visited North Korea three times.Contributor Balazs Szalontai is the author of Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Roots of North Korean Despotism, 1953-1964. His research concerns the modern history of Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, and Albania. He currently teaches at Mongolia International University, Ulaanbaatar.

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