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Dear Leader

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Insider's escape from North Korea's elite circle.

"Dear Leader" is a book that promises you a heart-pounding narrative from behind the curtain of one of the most enigmatic regimes on the planet. It's a gripping tale of privilege, peril, and ultimately, a flight to freedom that few can claim to have experienced firsthand. Jang Jin-sung's unique perspective sheds light on the life within the cloistered world of Pyongyang's elite, while captivating your imagination with the audacity and risks of defection. If you are intrigued by the human narratives that run parallel to political propaganda, this is a story that won't let you go until the very last page.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2014)
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Dear Leader

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ISBN: 9781846044205
Authors: Jang Jin-sung
Publisher: Rider & Co
Date of Publication: 2014-05-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 4.33
(rated by 8907 readers)

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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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Insider's escape from North Korea's elite circle.

"Dear Leader" is a book that promises you a heart-pounding narrative from behind the curtain of one of the most enigmatic regimes on the planet. It's a gripping tale of privilege, peril, and ultimately, a flight to freedom that few can claim to have experienced firsthand. Jang Jin-sung's unique perspective sheds light on the life within the cloistered world of Pyongyang's elite, while captivating your imagination with the audacity and risks of defection. If you are intrigued by the human narratives that run parallel to political propaganda, this is a story that won't let you go until the very last page.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.