{"product_id":"dear-leader-my-escape-from-north-korea-9781476766560","title":"Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea","description":"THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 an \"impossibly dramatic story...one of the best depictions yet of North Korea's nightmare\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 37 Ink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476766560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Jang Jin-Sung","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36652476006556,"sku":"9781476766560","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f48a500e-5888-4992-889b-9d2e730b58f4.jpg?v=1603879860","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dear-leader-my-escape-from-north-korea-9781476766560","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}