The Hidden Logic of North Korea

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The book provides analytical insights and firsthand impressions of a largely unknown system—an eyewitness account of provocative and strategic diplomacy.
This book provides exceptional insight into the internal dynamics of the North Korean political system. It documents 22 research and coordination trips undertaken by the project manager for North Korea at a political foundation, conducted over several years and granting sustained access to political, institutional, and academic actors. During these visits, interactions with government officials, party cadres, and scholars required continuous calibration between official discourse, culturally codified ritual, and individual subtext. The resulting diary is not a travel narrative in the conventional sense, but a political and analytical document. It traces communicative patterns, ideological and cultural continuities, potential avenues for policy evolution, and the structural constraints that delimit dialogue with a regime grounded in comprehensive control and the symbolic production of power.

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Walter Klitz
The author of the book, Walter Klitz, worked for a German 501(c)(3) organization for over two decades, heading its foreign offices in Tallinn (1994-1996), Washington D.C. (2001-2005), Seoul (2007-2012), and Jerusalem (2012-2016). During his time in Washington, he represented the foundation at the United Nations and the Bretton Woods Organizations. Furthermore, he has advised political parties in 19 countries around the world on both organizational and substantive issues. In doing so, he opened up additional channels of dialogue between political actors in the context of second-track diplomacy.

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