Running Behavioral Experiments With Human Participants: A Practical Guide provides a concrete, practical roadmap for the implementation of experiments and controlled observation using human participants. Covering both conceptual and practical issues critical to implementing an experiment, the book is organized to follow the standard process in experiment-based research, covering such issues as potential ethical problems, risks to validity, experimental setup, running a stu...

"The absurd, harrowing, and true story" of South Korean cinema stars kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il and forced to make movies before their daring escape (Esquire.com).Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Underwhelmed by the talent pool available to him, he took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South Korea's most famous actress—and her ex-husband S...

In Kim Jong-un’s Strategy for Survival, David W. Shin contends that Kim Jong-un's consolidation of power at home and the leveraging of Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, and Washington, and others abroad show that he is not a madman and, like the two earlier Kims, has consistently been underestimated. Shin presents an alternative framework for Kim Jong-un’s behavior through his analysis of Kim's background and his development as the successor to his father, Kim Jong-il; the evolution of the totalitar...

A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regimeBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous actress and her ex-husband, the country's most acclaimed director.In a jaw-drop...

There are many ways civilisation could end, even with wise, benevolent leaders like Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin watching over us. Now, in this fun interactive story of global doom, YOU decide how humanity perishes.Will we be turned to grey goo by Elon Musk’s nanobots?Driven collectively insane by Russia’s most potent memes?Or smashed to atoms by someone sitting on the wrong button in North Korea?In this book, YOU will meet the leaders with the...

Antes de convertirse en el dictador más famoso del mundo, Kim Jong-Il dirigía el Ministerio de Propaganda y los estudios de cine de Corea del Norte. Era el cerebro tras cada película, el productor y el guionista. Pero él solo no era suficiente, por lo que ordenó el secuestro de la actriz más famosa de Corea del Sur, y su exmarido, director de cine. Ella vivió en una jaula dorada, de la que solo se le permitía salir para los saraos oficiales. Él tuvo que pasar por la "reeducación" en campos...

This ambitious book is constructed to provide the reader with unusually broad and deep insight into North Korea, illustrating how the Kim Jong-un regime calculates, balances, and addresses the various key policy challenges it faces. This will be accomplished through the extensive experience of the authors—Korean, European, and American—in North Korea and with North Koreans. There is no substitute for such direct experience in order to address the numerous myths and misconceptions that have...

Une guerre nucléaire va-t-elle éclater dans la péninsule coréenne ?Depuis l'arrivée de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche, le péril d'un conflit apocalyptique avec la Corée du Nord, maîtresse du feu nucléaire, n'a jamais été aussi palpable. Les États-Unis oseront-ils la frapper militairement, au risque de déclencher des représailles aux conséquences incalculables pour toute la planète ?Dans cette enquête exceptionnelle menée au cours de plusieurs séjours en Cor...

This book shows how North Korea's nuclear programme is central to Kim Jong-un's strategy for survival and leverage, tracing its roots to the origins of the North Korean state and the evolution of its security policies under Kim Jong-il. It analyses how, upon assuming power, Kim rapidly accelerated nuclear weapons development, culminating in advanced missile tests and a declared nuclear deterrent. This programme plays a key role in promoting regime legitimacy and national security and is de...

＊この電子書籍は、2016年10月07日に発売した『父・金正日と私　金正男独占告白』の英訳版です。The abrupt death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s supreme leader, in late 2011 has propelled Kim Jong-un, his third and youngest son, to the helm of the reclusive communist state. As the untested young leader tries to consolidate his power, Kim Jong-nam, his half-brother who lives a life of exile in China, is keeping an eye on the precarious situation in his homeland. On January 3, 2012, just weeks after his father’s death, Kim Jong-nam...

Toen Kim Jong-un in 2011 zijn vader en zijn grootvader opvolgde als leider van Noord-Korea voorspelde menigeen dat de twintiger vanwege zijn gebrek aan leiderschapservaring snel opzij zou worden gezet door oudere partijbonzen. Al snel werd duidelijk dat Kim de onbetwiste leider was; hij bracht de VS en de regio regelmatig tot wanhoop.Voormalig CIA-analiste Jung H. Pak was vanaf het begin van Kims heerschappij betrokken bij het Amerikaanse beleid inzake Noord-Korea. In dit meesterlij...

This book illustrates how Seoul's transition into a digitally networked city has reshaped governance structures, economic systems, and cultural life.Central to this transformation is the proactive role of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, which has guided the city through multiple stages of smart urbanization with strategic planning and policy innovation.Organized into three parts, the contributors first examine the government's leadership in building a smar...