Description: This editionFormat368 pages, PaperbackPublishedJanuary 27, 2015 by 37 InkISBN9781476766560 (ISBN10: 1476766568)LanguageEnglish Dear Leader: My Escape from North KoreaJang Jin-sung,Shirley Lee (Translator) 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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Binding: Paperback
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Book Title: Dear Leader : My Escape from North Korea
Item Length: 8.4in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Jang Jin-Sung
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: WORLD / Asian, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Propaganda
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
