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Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea - Paperback

by Jang Jin-Sung
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jang Jin-SungPublish date:2015-01-27Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:37 InkISBN-13:9781476766560ISBN-10:1476766568UPC:9781476766560Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Personal Memoirs, WorldBook Topic:AsianSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCYSQ9WMCS
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 expos? 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).
Language:EnglishPublisher:37 InkISBN-13:9781476766560ISBN-10:1476766568UPC:9781476766560Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Personal Memoirs, WorldBook Topic:AsianSize:8.50 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCYSQ9WMCS
Jin-Sung, Jang: - Jang Jin-sung is a former poet laureate for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Since leaving the country he has become a bestselling author and widely solicited commentator on North Korea. He has been awarded the Rex Warner Literary Prize and read his poetry at London's Cultural Olympiad in 2012. He now lives in South Korea and is editor in chief of New Focus International, an authoritative website reporting on North Korea.
Publisher: 37 Ink

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37th Edition

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Jang Jin-Sung

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Jang Jin-Sung

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