{"product_id":"dear-leader-north-koreas-senior-propagandist-exposes-shocking-truths-behind-the-regime-by-jin-sung-jang","title":"Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime by Jin-Sung Jang","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The General will now enter the room.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43686231900234,"sku":"6749au","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6749au.jpg?v=1781058474","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/dear-leader-north-koreas-senior-propagandist-exposes-shocking-truths-behind-the-regime-by-jin-sung-jang","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}