Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea

Written by:
Jang Jin-sung
Narrated by:
Daniel York

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
7
Narrator
6
Release Date
July 2014
Duration
11 hours 42 minutes
Summary
THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.

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 exposé told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung’s escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is an “impossibly dramatic story…one of the best depictions yet of North Korea’s nightmare” (Publishers Weekly).
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Emily G

Eye opening narrative. The author has interwoven the history of North Korea along with his own experiences. Engaging narration.

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Andy Parker

The pace and real life drama of this story was totally unexpected. Terrific read.

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Annette Jalsevac

One of the most wrenching, heart-thumping books I've read in a long time. This true story of a North Korean government official, spy, fand poet, Jang Jin Sung's attempt to escape to South Korea is truly riveting, punctuated by many moments of great joy AND great sorrow. A magnificent education on the inner-workings of a land we can only imagine in nightmares; a place with a "government" so corrupt and self-serving, ruled by one rather inconsequential degenerate man with no conscience, who has managed to control most of the minds and actions of millions of it's citizens. Best book I've read in the last year.

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Kenneth Kelley

Make you understand your freedoms that someone else purchased for us.

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