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Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Soviet Defectors in the Public Record -- 1. What Has Been Written About Soviet Defectors? -- 2. What Have Defectors Written About Themselves? -- 3. What Did Soviet Defectors Say? -- Part II: The KGB Wanted List: 1945-1969 -- 4. The KGB Wanted List: A General Characterization -- 5. Personal Data on Defectors -- 6. Defection and Its Aftermath -- 7. Criminal Allegations and Expected Punishment -- 8. Spy and Fake Defectors -- 9. Defections Before and After the Berlin Wall -- 10. Defections Under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev -- Part III: Defections From 1969 to the Present -- 11. Defection and Legal Emigration -- 12. Trends in Post -1969 Defection -- 13. Defection and Détente -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- List of Abbreviations Used in Appendixes -- 1A Passev List (May 1945-April 1969) -- IB Those Missing From the Passev List (1945- 1969) -- 2A Sample Entry of the KGB Wanted List (Vladislav Krasnov) -- 2B Ethnic Background of Defectors -- 2C Annual Distribution of Defections -- 2D Countries of Defection -- 2E Countries of Residence -- 2F Court Sentences For Defectors -- 2G List of "Anti-Soviet" Organizations Associated With Defectors -- 2H List of "Anti-Soviet" Organizations Sponsored By Foreigners -- 2I Defections Before and After the Berlin Wall -- 2J Defections Under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev -- 2K Ethnic Distribution of Defectors Under Different Rulers -- 3 Composite List of Defectors (May 1969 to Present) -- 3A Defecting Scholars and Intellectuals (1969 to Present) -- 3B Defecting Musicians and Singers (1969 to Present) -- 3C Defecting Dancers (1969 to Present) -- 3D Defecting Seamen and Fishermen (1969 to Present) -- 3E Defecting Athletes and Sportsmen (1969 To Present)

When intelligence officers defect, they take with them privileged information and often communicate it to the receiving state.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Map 1. East Asia -- Map 2. North Korea -- Map 3. Central Pyongyang -- Critical introduction from Adam Zulawnik -- Source text introduction by Lim Il -- Acknowledgements -- Translation Teams -- Chapter 1 Kim Shin-jo: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ pastor -- Chapter 2 Ahn Chan-il: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ chairman of Sungy Dongji association -- Chapter 3 Chon Chol-Woo: Exchange student in Germany ∞ president of Gohyang FS -- Chapter 4 Kang Chol-hwan: Yodok Prison Camp inmate ∞ chairman of the North Korea Strategy Center -- Chapter 5 Im Young-sun: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ chairman of the Committee for the Nine Northern Korean provinces -- Special column: South Korean defectors and North Korean defector-residents -- Chapter 6 Kim Tae-bom: North Korean logger in Russia ∞ director of the Peace Unith Korea Defectore Alliance -- Chapter 7 Kang Myung-do: Premier Kang Sung-san's son-in-law ∞ university professor -- Chapter 8 Cho Myung-chul: Teacher at Kim Il-Sung university ∞ member of the 19th National Assembly (2012), politician -- Chapter 9 Ahn Myeong-cheol: Security guard in the Korean People's Army ∞ president of NK Watch -- Chapter 10 Jeong Seong-san: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ musical director -- Special column: North Korean defector-residents and naming problems -- Chapter 11 Rhee Min-bok: Agricultural researcher ∞ leader of anti-North Korean balloon propaganda program -- Chapter 12 Han Yong-su: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ first North Korean metro train operator -- Chapter 13 Jeong Nam: Railway worker ∞ president of Glov Co., Ltd. (sunflower oil producer) -- Chapter 14 Shim Ju-il: Korean People's Army soldier ∞ head of North Korean Soldiers of Christ Association.

Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this deeply anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed life forever for those who survived. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary "man and woman on the street." They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country

This book is the first analysis of political defections over a long time span. It investigates all the Liberal/Liberal Democrat MPs and former MPs who defected from the party between the elections of December 1910 and May 2010 - around one sixth of all those elected - as well as the smaller number of inward defectors. Each of the 122 defections was an expert judgment on the state of the party at a specific date. The research investigates the timing and reasons for all the defections and reveals long-term trends and underlying causes and apportions responsibility between leaders for them. The author finds some significant differences which distinguished defectors from loyalists and draws wider conclusions about the underlying factors which lead MPs to defect.This book will be of interest to students and lecturers of British politics and anyone interested in the relationship between British political parties in the last century

Frontcover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Andrei Lankov -- Introduction -- Contributors -- PART 1 Economic Life -- PART 2 The Powers That Be -- PART 3 Media and Information -- PART 4 Pyongyang vs. the Rest -- PART 5 The Outside World -- PART 6 Comparing North and South -- PART 7 Health and Welfare -- PART 8 Defection from North Korea -- PART 9 Religion and Spirituality -- PART 10 Love, Sex, Relationships -- PART 11 Fun and Leisure -- PART 12 Any Other Questions?.

Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and seek freedom. Although some North Korean defectors have survived the life-threatening escape journey and arrived in free countries, their overwhelming challenges have not yet ended, as they now face a range of issues and challenges in resettlement, adjustment, and learning process in new and competitive societies. North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society articulates several hurdles that North Korean defectors encounter, from their long journey of escape to assimilation in their new homes. This book seeks to raise international awareness of human rights violations against North Koreans, and to emphasize the importance of helping them overcome the substantial cultural gaps between North Korea and their new homes

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Publisher's Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations, acronyms and agency names -- Introduction: Labyrinth -- PART I: Sniper -- 1. Grave secrets -- 2. Tightrope walk -- 3. Crossing over -- 4. 'Sick think' -- 5. Saving Six -- PART II: Hacke -- 6. Red swastika -- 7. The search for 'Gestapo' Müller -- PART III: King of Queens -- 8. Washington Merry-Go-Round -- 9. Tsar Wars -- 10. Hating Henry Kissinger -- PART IV: Knights of Malta -- 11. Shickshinny shenanigans -- 12. White Russians in Manhattan -- 13. Plots and Protocols -- 14. Uncle Sam and the Knights -- Conclusion: Imaginary Castle -- Appendix I: Noddy and the Pig -- Appendix II: A weird Yank in Warsaw -- Appendix III: Skorzeny -- Cast of characters -- Chronology: Poland (1922-1961) -- Bibliography -- Kevin Coogan Bibliography -- Index.