Dear Leader by Jang Jin-Sung
THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: 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 expos 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.North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's former poet laureate is Jang Jin-sung. Since fleeing the nation, he has become a best-selling author and a sought-after North Korean critic. In 2012, he received the Rex Warner Literary Award and performed his poetry during the Cultural Olympiad in London. He now stays in South Korea and works as the editor-in-chief of New Focus International, a reputable North Korean news website.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476766560 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476766568 |
| Title | Dear Leader |
| Author | Jang Jin-Sung |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | 37 Ink |
| Year published | 2015-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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