Dear Leader : Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
(2014)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 42 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781442375802 MWT17287903, 1442375809 17287903
LANGUAGE
English
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Narrated by Daniel York

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

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