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2014., Adult, 37 Ink/Atria Call No: 951.93 J33d Edition: First 37 Ink / Atria books hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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.
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c2010., Spiegel & Grau Call No: 306.0951 D378n Edition: Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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c2012., Adult, Random House Call No: Fic Joh Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
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2012., Adult, Random House Audio Call No: CD Fic Joh Edition: Unabridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
![The orphan master's son [CD]](/Library/images/~imageCT76500.JPG "The orphan master's son [CD]")
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2014., Adult, Crown Publishers Call No: Bio K49w Edition: 1st edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields--except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room. Suki Kim offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls 'soldiers and slaves.'"--From publisher.
