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Kim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik. -- Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur. -- Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime. -- John Feffer Korean Quarterly

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Preface Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction, by Kim Suk-Young 1. Coming of Age 2. Living for the Great Leader 3. Downfall of a Model Citizen 4. In the Mouth of Death 5. Escape 6. Across the Continent Afterword: Unfinished Story Notes

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 19/06/2009
      ISBN13: 9780231147460, 978-0231147460
      ISBN10: 0231147465
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Kim gives us a marvelously unsympathetic portrait of a brain-washed apparatchik. -- Christian Oliver Financial Times [Kim's] dispassionate account of how one man endured the unendurable offers a clue as to how such extreme inhumanity can occur. -- Donald Richie Japan Times A reminder of the brutality of the North Korean regime. -- John Feffer Korean Quarterly

      Table of Contents
      Preface Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction, by Kim Suk-Young 1. Coming of Age 2. Living for the Great Leader 3. Downfall of a Model Citizen 4. In the Mouth of Death 5. Escape 6. Across the Continent Afterword: Unfinished Story Notes

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