Loretta Napoleoni on North Korea The Country We Love to Hate

Loretta Napoleoni returns to the Economic Rockstar podcast to talk about her work and recent book on North Korea.

Loretta is an expert on terrorist financing and money laundering, and advises several governments and international organizations on counter-terrorism.

Check out my previous conversation with Loretta in Episode 23 at www.economicrockstar.com/loretta where she discusses funding terrorists, ISIS and the Islamic State. Visit Loretta’s own site at www.lorettanapoleoni.net.

In this Episode Loretta discusses her latest book entitled North Korea: The Country We Love to Hate.

“Like China’s Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung – North Korea’s leader from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1996 – washed away the humiliation caused by Japanese colonisation and re-created an ancient nation. He consolidated and protected the country with strict principles of unity and isolation. His grandson Kim Jong-un is following in the footsteps of Chinese revolutionary politics by modernising the country using the economy as the main tool of transformation.

This short, informative book is an account of a country central to world politics and yet little understood. Further, it presents insider narratives of its people, whose self-image is radically different to the image we have of them.” 

A Selection of Books by Loretta Napoleoni:

• North Korea: The Country We Love to Hate
• Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business
• Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
• Rogue Economics
• The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East
• Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do

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