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

Jang Jin-sung

Hardcover | Pages: 339 pages

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Original Title:	Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
ISBN:	147676655X (ISBN13: 9781476766553)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2014)

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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.

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Title	:	Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
Author	:	Jang Jin-sung
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 339 pages
Published	:	May 13th 2014 by 37 Ink
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Politics

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I like to read speculative fiction science fiction and fantasy and this may as well be. The socio-political situation described in North Korea is as alien as something dreamed up by George Orwell or Philip K. Dick.The author was a state sponsored poet actually a high-ranking member of the controlling workers party and got to see behind the wizards curtain realizing finally that all the propaganda about Dear Leader, the moniker used for the ruling Kim, was a load of horses***. He decided to

Former North Korean poet and propagandist Jang Jin-sung has written Dear Leader which appears to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the upper echelons of North Korean society. Whereas the majority of defectors usually detail the awful poverty and starvation that seemingly blight the lives of millions of North Koreans in their memoirs, Jang lived in relative opulence as one of Kim Jong-Ils admitted: an elite group of high level party workers and officials provided with

Although a memoir, this book reads like a fiction novel. The oppression of North Koreans by the tyrant regime doesn't seem to fit in this century. The book is an eye opener for the outsiders on the pitiful state of North Koreans. This rare insight on the functioning of DPRK and the government's absolute grip on its people is shocking. The country works like a prison, with severed connections from outside world, where people can't leave or talk to outsiders with no access to what is going around

This book was perhaps a slight letdown. It had information about North Korea but probably more than half of the book was dedicated to Jang Jin-Sung and his escape in particular. While it was interesting it was not what I was looking for when I bought this book. So quite a big part of the roughly 300 pages was not about North Korea. The parts that did were quite interesting, however. Considering the recent confession by Shin Dong-hyuk that he wasn't completely honest about everything in his book

I had thought that after reading the terrifying, inimitable, and heart-stopping Nothing to Envy that there wouldnt by any shocks for me left in the world of North Korea. I felt that I was prepared mentally, if not emotionally, to read once again about the horrors faced by North Koreans, however, I was completely wrong. Jang was an elite, one who was personally favored by the Kim family, who had access to state secrets (such as North Korea abducting citizens from other countries to indoctrinate

I'm divided in how I feel about this book. On the one hand, hearing a perspective from a high ranking insider with several (brief) encounters with Kim Jong Il was very interesting. I wished to hear more about the life of the privileged in the regime, but oh well. Throughout the book, I did find myself questioning how much was embellished. Maybe embellished isn't the world, but perhaps whitewashed is better. Jang always portrays himself as a morally courageous, but I'm left wondering. It's a

Beyond the myths and gossips about North Korea, this book gives a much more realistic view about whats been happening in N.Korea since the foundation of the Kim dynasty. However, its more focused on the era of the second leader, Kim Jung-il, titled Dear Leader. The narrator is a North Korean poet (in fact a psychological warfare expertise) working for UFD (United Front Department) which works as the central machine of propaganda for N.K government. Employees of UFD have to produce literary and