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Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea Reprint edition
Jang Jin-sung
Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea Reprint edition
Jang Jin-sung
THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.
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 exposé told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung?s escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is an ?impossibly dramatic story?one of the best depictions yet of North Korea?s nightmare? (Publishers Weekly).
368 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 27, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781476766560 |
Publishers | Simon & Schuster |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 140 × 213 × 213 mm · 272 g |
Language | English |
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