Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea
THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: 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.
€œThe General will now enter the room.€Â
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.