{"product_id":"9781476766560","title":"Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE 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.\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 exposé 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atria \/ 37 INK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031992287472,"sku":"9781476766560","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476766560_p0.jpg?v=1763610105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476766560","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}