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product_id: 12783924
title: "Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea"
price: "$41.57"
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# Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

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## Description

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 ).

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #144,785 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #74 in Asian Politics #487 in Political Leader Biographies #2,163 in Memoirs (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,566 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

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