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Jasper BeckerJasper Becker is a journalist and writer. His books include China's Hungry Ghosts (John Murray, 1996) and Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea (Oxford University Press, 2005). Recent articlesChina: imperfect memory to global impunity The Chinese elite's repression and falsification of national history fuels its ability to support violations of human rights around the world, says Jasper Becker. A gulag with nukes: inside North KoreaBehind its rhetoric of anti-imperialist defiance the Pyongyang elite starves and enslaves its people. Jasper Becker talks to North Korean escapees who offer chilling testimony of Kim Jong Il’s world of luxury and fear. |
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