Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
- ISBN-10
- 1476766568
- ISBN-13
- 9781476766560
- Series
- Dear Leader
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-27
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Jang Jin-sung
Description
"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life. Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose; told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime"--
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Other editions
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- 2015-02-02
- 326 pages
- Paperback
- Random House
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- 2014-05-13
- 368 pages
- Paperback
- Atria / 37 INK
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