1 Looking Backward = 1 2 The Power and Poverty of Ideology = 12 3 The Turning Point Economy = 41 4 The Leader, His Party, and His People = 81 5 The Military: Pillar of Society = 105 6 Social Control = 127 7 The Foreign Relations of a Hermit Kingdom = 148 8 Dealing with the DPRK = 185 Notes = 213 Index = 247.