| Edition |
First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 339 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Jang, Jin-sung.
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Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.
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Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
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Propaganda -- Korea (North)
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Political refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
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Poets -- Biography.
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Korea (North) -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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| ISBN |
9781476766553 (hardback) |
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147676655X (hardback) |
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