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The Rhino Conspiracy by Peter Hain Publisher: Muswell Press All politicians, it is said, write fiction. However, some actually write fiction novels, though only a precious few are worth reading. [...]

North Korea's nuclear programme is the direct consequence of the US-UK adventurism of the past 25 years. Burned into Pyongyang's psyche are the Western interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria. [...]

Half a century ago, last Sunday, the Enola Gay took off from Timan to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In a split second more than 100,000 died or [...]

ULTRA NIPPON: HOW JAPAN REINVENTED FOOTBALL Jonathan Birchall Headline, 256pp, £16.99 £13.59 at www.newstatesman.co.uk (+£1 p&p) CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MODERN JAPAN Edited by Ian Inkster and Fumihiko Satofuka I [...]

THE GUERRILLA DYNASTY: POLITICS AND LEADERSHIP IN NORTH KOREA Adrian Buzo I B Tauris, 336pp, £35 £28 at www.newstatesman.co.uk (+15% p&p) Adrian Buzo is a former Australian diplomat who served [...]

Following our extensive coverage of the relationships between Africa and China, we invited Glyn Ford, Labour Euro Member of Parliament for the Southwest of England and Gibraltar, member of the [...]

Europe was torn apart by fascism in the 1930s, and when the Second World War ended in 1945, remnants of extreme right parties re-emerged on the margins of politics. By [...]

For over two decades, Europe has seen a rising tide of racism and xenophobia threatening to engulf its politics. Increasingly since 9/11, this has become particularized in the form of [...]

TONY BENN: A POLITICAL LIFE David Powell Continuum, 256pp, £16.99 Discounts at. www.newstatesman.co.uk The Right Honourable Anthony Wedgewood Benn spent almost half a century in the Commons before retiring last [...]

The party's domestic aims conflict with its aims for the European Union Within five months Labour will have its last best hope of power in a generation. When it wins, [...]

In contrast, Kevin Rafferty's Inside Japan's Powerhouses: the culture, mystique and future of Japan's greatest corporations (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20£) tries to take a snapshot of Japan today. His 12 [...]

Half a century ago, last Sunday, the Enola Gay took off from Timan to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In a split second more than 100,000 died or [...]

After all but half a century of hegemonic rule, Japan is in a state of rapid flux. The old Liberal Democratic Party, Jiminto - in power since the war apart [...]

After all but half a century of hegemonic rule, Japan is in a state of rapid flux. The old Liberal Democratic Party, Jiminto - in power since the war apart [...]

THE EUROPEAN IMPERATIVE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION IN THE 1990s Stuart Holland Spokesman Books, 14.95 pounds This book forms the intellectual underpinning to Jacques' Delors white paper, produced at last [...]

On 25 May North Korea conducted a successful test of a plutonium-based nuclear weapon. Since the detection of the blast--similar in force to that of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima [...]

The first green shoots are showing on the trees along the Taedong River. Spring is threatening. The city is busy and there are more cars on the street: so many [...]

Jasper Becker gets carried away ('The depths of evil', 4 September). He argues that 'change is more unlikely than ever' under Kim Jong-il and that 'little has changed' since the [...]