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.
An astonishing expos� 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 )..
Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine.
When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.
But this privileged existence was about to be shattered.
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.
As North Korea\'s State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life.
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
