Favorite Leader: From Trusted Person to Enemy of the State. My Escape from North Korea - 9786175484340
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"'Favorite Leader' is a book written by North Korean defector Jang Jin-sung. The author once worked in the propaganda department and was, by DPRK standards, a fairly well-off person. More than that: Kim Jong Il's court poet had the opportunity to read world literature and occasionally watch South Korean television. Jang Jin-sung belonged to a privileged class. Thanks to food supplies through a special distributor, a pass for free movement within the country, and access to strictly censored information, his life was not so bad. But even he had to escape to save himself. The reason was a lost book printed in South Korea. The edition was banned for the general public; the author lent a copy to a friend, who forgot the briefcase on transport. To escape the secret services, the friends flee to China. Their wanderings within their own country and then abroad are described in great detail. This high-quality memoir prose exposes the vile nature of the DPRK's totalitarian system, where people were simply destroyed: shot, starved, sent to concentration camps, and family members arrested. When North Koreans began dying en masse from hunger, the world started to help, but international aid was considered a shameful secret. The regime could not allow its disclosure to ordinary citizens, as it would undermine the state ideology of 'self-reliance.' The terrible tyranny continues to exist today. Jang Jin-sung exposes the cult of personality and continues to truthfully tell what is happening in the northern part of the country."
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