{"product_id":"book-bc55","title":"Dear Leader","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\u003ci\u003e\"The general will now enter the room.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\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 expos├® told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, \u003ci\u003eDear Leader\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347804856624,"sku":"BDbc55","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/134534-bc55-Square.jpg?v=1734209412","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bc55","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}