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Jang, Jin-sung.
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Jang, Jin-sung.
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
Propaganda -- Korea (North)
Political refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Poets -- Biography.
Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Korea (North) -- Biography.
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Jang, Jin-sung.
Jang, Jin-sung.
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
Propaganda -- Korea (North)
Political refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Poets -- Biography.
Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Korea (North) -- Biography.
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Dear Leader : poet, spy, escapee : a look inside North Korea / Jang Jin-sung ; translated by Shirley Lee.
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Jang, Jin-sung.
37 Ink/Atria , 2014.
Call #:
951
.9305
J33d
Subjects
Jang, Jin-sung.
Kim, Chŏng-il, 1942-2011.
Propaganda -- Korea (North)
Political refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography.
Poets -- Biography.
Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 1994-2011.
Korea (North) -- Social conditions.
Korea (North) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781476766553 (hc.)
147676655X (hc.)
Edition:
First 37 Ink / Atria books hardcover edition.
Description:
xxii, 339 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Notes:
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. 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"--Provided by publisher.
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