As a North Korean State Poet Laureate, and counter-intelligence officer, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, 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 that he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.
Dear Leader is an unprecedented insight into the world´s most secretive country. Never before has a member of the elite described how this totalitarian state is run, through its propaganda machine. A very rare, highly readable document, it exposes a side of North Korea which has never before been seen. It is also the heart stopping story of an escape to freedom