Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

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).

Author: Jang Jin-Sung
Publisher: 37 Ink
Published: 01/27/2015
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781476766560
ISBN10: 1476766568
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Political Science | World | Asian