{"product_id":"dear-leader-poet-spy-escapee-a-look-inside-north-korea","title":"Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea","description":"Used Hardcover in Very Good condition. THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The General will now enter the room.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEveryone 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…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNever 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, \u003ci\u003eDear Leader\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world’s most secretive and repressive regime.","brand":"Jin-sung, Jang","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":54003313344795,"sku":"mon0000801412","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/21717263482713.jpg?v=1789949411","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/dear-leader-poet-spy-escapee-a-look-inside-north-korea","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}