CHAPTER 1: Why Doublesidedness? 5

CHAPTER 2: Double-sidedness in Politics·Military
      1. People’s democracy and hereditary dictatorship 10
      2. A powerful and prosperous country and backwardness 24
      3. Independence line and dependency on foreign countries 40
      4. National cooperation and provocations against South Korea 52

CHAPTER 3: Double-sidedness in Economy·Society
      1. Planned economy and private economic activity 66
      2. Distribution system and the market 80
      3. Egalitarian society and discrimination by Songbun(North Korea’s social classification system) 91
      4. Pyongyang, the “capital of the revolution,” and the provinces 102

CHAPTER 4: Double-sidedness in People’s Lives·Va lues
      1. Collectivism and individualism 118
      2. Official media and informal information 126
      3. Social control and aberrations 137
      4. Socialism centered on the popular masses and human rights violations 146

CHAPTER 5: Cont inuat ion and Chan ge of Double-sidedness of North Korea 157