North Korea’s Nuclear Cinema

"What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea engaging in hostilities when its erstwhile adversaries have offered a diplomatic exit ramp? This book introduces new ways of understanding North Korea's provocations within the context of changing media technologies. Chapter by chapter, it explains how North Korea's footage-based nuclear politics is presented as military practice to promote the image of North Korea as a nuclear power, but ultimately traces its lineage to cinematic propaganda, a tradition that blurs the line between image and reality"--