Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 25.5×18.5cm./10×7.2inch.
Weight: 86gr./3oz.
Pages: 31
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Book made in North Korea. Illustrated children’s story.
Books North Korea Literature
Price: 12.00 euro
Size: 23.5×17.5cm./9.2×6.8inch.
Weight: 127gr./4.4oz.
Pages: 28
Year: 1984
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Book made in North Korea, 1984, by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, illustrated children’s story.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×12cm./7.2×4.7inch.
Weight: 99gr./3.4oz.
Pages: 144
Year: 1988
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Book made in North Korea, 1988. From the book:”Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic’s Republic of Korea, , is an old city with a history stretching back over 2.000 years. Pyongyang boast many tales associated with the valorous life and struggle of the Korean people who are proud of their 5.000 year long history. This book contains 19 tales”. There is also a Russian language edition.
(3.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 17.5×11.5cm./6.8×4.5inch.
Weight: 42gr./1.4oz.
Pages: 57
Year: 1990
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Book made in North Korea, 1990. Book with a large poem about Mt. Paekdu, the sacred mountain. The mountain plays an important mythological and cultural role in both Korean states. For instance, it is mentioned in both of their national anthems and is depicted on the National Emblem of North Korea.
Both Koreans assign a mythical quality to the volcano and its caldera lake, considering it to be their country’s spiritual home. With 2744m./9003ft. it is the highest mountain in North Korea, the Korean Peninsula and Northeast China. The mountain’s caldera was created in 946 by the colossal Tianchi eruption, one of the most violent eruptions in the last 5,000 years.
The founder of the first Korean Empire, King Tangun, was born on this mountain 3000 years ago. According to legend his father, Godly King Hwanung, was decended on this mountain, married a bear wich was turned into a woman and out of that Tangun was born. Tangun is not the first leader to be born on Mt. Paektu. Also Kim Jong Il (father of the current leader Kim Jong Un) was born in a cabin on Mt. Paektu. This would have happened during the Korean War.
Kim Il Sung set up secret bases around Mt. Paektuto lead the Korean revolution as a whole from the latter half of the 1930’s to the first half of the 1940’s during the anti Japanese armed struggle.
(3.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 20.5×14.5cm./8×5.7inch.
Weight: 46gr./1.6oz.
Pages: 48
Year: 1992
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Book made in North Korea, 1992. Illustrated Fairy Tale. The fairy Kum Son descends to this world from Heaven together with Chae Son to find a lost gem. Fascinated by the scenery of Mt. Kumgang, Chae Son gets married with the shepherd Kum Dong.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 25.5×18.5cm./10×7.2inch.
Weight: 92gr./2.2oz.
Pages: 40
Year: 1988.
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Book made in North Korea, 1988. From the book:”This illustrated storybook satirizes the old corrupt society and nobility for their inefficency and reveals that the masses of the people were wiser than their feudal rulers”.
(3.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 18.5x11cm./7.2×4.3inch.
Weight: 76gr./2.6oz.
Pages: 113
Year: 1991
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Book made in North Korea, 1991. Collection of classical Korean Folk Tales from ancient times with theme that honest hardworking virtuous people will eventually find happiness while evildoers will be punished.
(3.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 18.5x12cm./7.2×4.7inch.
Weight: 91gr./3.2oz.
Pages: 135
Year: 1991
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Book made in North Korea, 1991. It describes the love between Chun Hyang and Ri Mong Ryong and their individual fates and shows it in the relationship with the broad sections of the population, thus emphasizing its social significance and clarifying the characteristic features of the feudal society of the Ri Dynasty.
(2.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 14.5×10.5cm./5.7×4.1inch.
Weight: 30gr./1oz.
Pages: 67
Year: 1988
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Book made in North Korea, 1988.
(3.21)
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 14.5×10.5cm./5.7×4.1inch.
Weight: 27gr./0.9oz.
Pages: 63
Year: 1988
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Book made in North Korea, 1988.
(10.21)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 21x16cm./8.2×6.2inch.
Weight: 633gr./22.3oz.
Pages: 489
Year: 1979
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Book made in North Korea, 1979.
(4.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 18.5×11.5cm./7.2×4.5inch.
Weight: 133gr./4.6oz.
Pages: 199
Year: 1989
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Book made in North Korea, 1989. Mitsuhiro Momota (1924-1963), better known as Rikidozan, was a Korean-Japanese wrestler who competed in professional wrestling and sumo wrestling. He was known as The Father of Puroresu, and one of the most influential men in professional wrestling history. Initially, he had moved from his native country Korea to Japan to become a sumo wrestler.
He was credited with bringing the sport of professional wrestling to Japan at a time when the Japanese needed a local hero to emulate and was lauded as a national hero. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017, becoming the first Korean inductee and the third puroresu star to be inducted after Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami. He was killed in a street fight with a member of the Yakuza in 1963.
(8.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×6.1inch.
Weight: 281gr./17.8oz.
Pages: 160
Year: 1987
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Book made in North Korea, 1987, and is a novel about Kim Jong Suk. Kim Jong Suk (1917-1949) was a Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla, a Communist activist, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s first wife, former leader Kim Jong Il’s mother, and current leader Kim Jong Un’s grandmother.
(8.21)
Price: 17.50 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×6.1inch.
Weight: 506gr./17.8oz.
Pages: 325
Year: 1978
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Book made in North Korea, 1978. titled:”The Mother Of Korea”. Biographical Novel of the life and patriotic activity of the great Mother of Korea, Kang Ban Sok.
Kang Ban Sok devoted her life to the struggle for the rebirth of Korea, for the liberation and freedom of the Korean People. The conditions under which her revolutionary activity was conducted were very hard: repressions of the Japanese imperialists, double and triple exploitation and oppression of the landlords and capitalists; however, she endured all the misfortunes and adversities with fortitude.
The great Mother of Korea who bore and raised the respected and beloved leader of the Korean people, Comrade Kim II Sung, was an ardent Communist and a staunch revolutionary. The heroic life and deeds of this greatest, wisest, most renowned and beautiful of Korean women remains an illustrious example for all women.
(10.21)
Price: 20.00 euro
Size: 21x16cm./8.2×6.2inch.
Weight: 792gr./28oz.
Pages: 626
Year: 1977
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Book made in North Korea, 1977, titled:”Immortal History, The Year 1932″. A Novel of the Revolutionary activities of Kim Il Sung in the time period of the Anti-Japanese Revolutionary struggle for Korean independence 1905 to 1945.
(5.21)
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 18.5×11.5cm./7.2×4.5inch.
Weight: 128gr./4.5oz.
Year: 1989
Pages: 173
Book made in North Korea 1989, Part 4. From the book:”The Liaison Council of the Japan Teacher’s Society for the study of the Juche idea sends it’s delegation to the DPRK during the summer vacation every year from 1976, at the invitation of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Country’s. This is a boon of President Kim Il Sung’s warm affection. This time we publish volume III of the book: Korea A Trial Blazer as a fruit of the efforts of the members of the fifth and sixth delegations”.
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 20.5x13cm./8×5.1inch.
Weight: 215gr./7.5oz.
Year: 1987
Pages: 287
Book made in North Korea 1987. Autobiography of South Korean Army General Choe Dok Sin, war veteran, President of South Korean Military Academy, former Ambassador to South Vietnam, and U.S. Citizen,
And moved to North Korea to live out the rest of his life. This is the first of three books and covers his entire life. Includes self reflection, analysis between the two societies and factors leading up to his decision.
Price: 6.00 euro
Size: 18.5×11.5cm./7.2×4.5inch.
Weight: 78gr./2.7oz.
Year: 1986
Pages: 111
Book made in North Korea, 1986. A novel about the struggle of a vilage during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Written by Chon Se Bon who is a famous writer in the DPRK. He wrote many novels and became Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Writer’s Union. For his works he was rewarded the Kim Il Sung Prize in 1972 and the Kim Il Sung order, the highest decoration in the Republic, in 1985.
Price: 5.00 euro
Size: 20.5×14.5cm./8×5.7inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
Year: 1986
Literature book based on historical facts about Admiral Choe Mu Son who made fire arms to beat back the Japanese invaders. Made in 1986.
(15.21)
Price: 15.00 euro
Size: 18×12.5cm./7×4.9inch.
Weight: 232gr./8.1oz.
Year: 1984
Pages: 305
Book made in North Korea 1984. From the book:”The Liaison Council of the Japan Teacher’s Society for the study of the Juche idea sends it’s delegation to the DPRK during the summer vacation every year from 1976, at the invitation of the Korean Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Country’s. This is a boon of President Kim Il Sung’s warm affection. This time we publish volume III of the book: Korea A Trial Blazer as a fruit of the efforts of the members of the fifth and sixth delegations”.
Price: 7.50 euro
Size: 18.5x12cm./7.2×4.7inch.
Weight: 70gr./2.4oz.
Year: 1992
Pages: 93
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Book from North Korea, 1992. This is a fairytale book with 14 Korean fairytales.
(7.5.21)
Price: 10.00 euro
Size: 20.5x13cm./8.5.1inch.
Weight: 210gr./7.4oz.
Year: 1990
Pages: 258
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Book made in North Korea, 1990. It is the writings of a man and his family who fled South Korea to settle in North Korea.
From the book:”During my exile from the disgraceful society of South Korea, I visited the north on several occasions and saw with my own eyes that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not only the epitome of an independent nation but also a land of bliss wich has previously been concieved of by humanity only as an ideal. My excitement at this discovery was probably stronger than that of Columbus on discovering the New World”.
(5.72.21)
Price: 35.00 euro
Size: 21x15cm./8.2×5.9inch.
Weight: 102gr./3.5oz.
Year: 1957
Pages: 121
Book made in North Korea in 1957. Very rare book with stories from several people who fled from South to North Korea.
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