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THE STORY THEY COULDNT HACK In this rare insiders 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 freedomThe 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-ils face will soon appear As North Koreas 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 expos told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sungs escape to South Korea Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the worlds most secretive and repressive regime.