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Title Dear leader : poet, spy, escapee - a look inside North Korea Jang, Jin-Sung
Imprint New York, Atria, 2014

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  951.93 Chang engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition
Descript xxii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes index
"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
Subject Chang, Chin-song, pseud.
Kim, Jong Il, 1941-2011
Flyktingar
Avhoppare
Författare
Poeter
Politiska förhållanden
Propaganda -- Korea (North)
Nordkorea
Political refugees -- Korea (North) -- Biography
Poets -- Biography
Biografi
Classmark 951.9305/1092 B
Gz Chang, Chin-song
Lz Chang, Chin-song,
ISBN/ISSN 9781476766553
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