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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
Dear Leader Poet Spy EscapeeA Look Inside North Korea Author:Jang Jin-sung 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 ... more »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 exposé 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.« less