{"product_id":"9781476766560","title":"Dear Leader : My Escape from North Korea (37TH)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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-stoppingstory 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":"37 Ink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48218863960299,"sku":"EB_HI0900_D16-01_SIMS","price":36.61,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781476766560-1.jpg?v=1784440868","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781476766560","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}