The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (953 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143108026 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Good Book R. Young Very interesting book. Proves history doesn't have to be boring.. Ken Elder said Hopefully a Movie Is in the Works. Ken Rowe (No Kum Sok) has been a good friend since 196Hopefully a Movie Is in the Works Ken Elder Ken Rowe (No Kum Sok) has been a good friend since 1964. We sat next to each other as engineers, and I have read his memoir. A MIG-15 to Freedom. Recently declassified US Intelligence records have added much to everything previously published.What a great idea to weave the two stories of good (Ken) and evil (Kim II Sung). Mr. Harden does a masterful job making an excitingly good read and a well doc. . We sat next to each other as engineers, and I have read his memoir. A MIG-15 to Freedom. Recently declassified US Intelligence records have added much to everything previously published.What a great idea to weave the two stories of good (Ken) and evil (Kim II Sung). Mr. Harden does a masterful job making an excitingly good read and a well doc. "Escaping North Korea" according to Rob Hardy. The behavior of North Korea among the community of nations has been problematic for decades. There have been recent aspects that have a comic-opera silliness about them, like the faked photos of a supposedly successful missile testing, or Kim Jong Un’s tantrum over a terrapin farm that wasn’t producing the lobsters he wanted, or the nation’s reaction to the movie _The Interview_.
On the other side is No Kum Sok, a young fighter pilot who silently labors as a secret traitor, patiently biding his time reciting state pabulum and waiting for the main chance to make a high-stakes flight for the south. In fact, this is author Blaine Harden's second visit to deliriously Orwellian country in three years, following his remarkable 2012 book, Escape from Camp 14. An Best Book of the Month for March 2015: A lot of ink has been spilled writing about North Korea lately, and for good reason: the Hermi
Harden lives in Seattle. . Blaine Harden is the author of Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent; A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia; and Escape from Camp 14. Africa won a PEN American Center citation for first book of nonfiction. Escape from Camp 14 was both a New York Times and an international bestseller published in twenty-seven languages
The theft—just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953—electrified the world and incited Kim’s bloody vengeance. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok pretended to love his Great Leader. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world’s longest-lasting totalitarian state.. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the roles of Mao and Stalin in Kim’s shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. Blaine Harden, New York Times–bestselling auth