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Dear Leader : poet, spy, escapee-- a look inside North Korea / Jang Jin-sung ; translated by Shirley Lee.
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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- ISBN: 9781476766553 (hardback)
- ISBN: 147676655X (hardback)
- Physical Description: xxii, 339 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : 37 Ink, Atria, 2014.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
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Genre: | Biography. |