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This novel follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother, a singer "stolen" to Pyongyang, and a father...
Author
Language
English
Description
Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and, through the lens of Shin's life, unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 314 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of six North Koreans over a span of fifteen years, exploring how the lives of ordinary citizens were impacted by key social, political, and economic events of the time.
Author
Series
Inspector O novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector O is pulled into a web of betrayal and death in North Korea when he becomes the target of a government plan to eliminate anyone who knows too much about a series of decades-old kidnappings and murders.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But...
Author
Publisher
Rosetta Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through poignant, laugh-out-loud essays and 92 never-before-published color photographs of North Korea, [the author] chronicles one of the strangest vacations ever. Along the way, she bares all while undergoing an inner journey as convoluted as the country itself."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Without You There Can Be No Us offers a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world's most unknowable country, and of the privileged young men she calls 'soldiers and slaves'" -- Book flap.
"A ... memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign"--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long...
10) K is for Korea
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
[26] p. : col. ill, col. maps ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A photographic introduction to Korea, featuring brief descriptions of people, places, customs, and other aspects of city and country life in Korea, arranged alphabetically from Arirang to Lacquerware.
11) Brother's keeper
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A North Korean ICBM crashes into the Sea of Japan. A veteran CIA officer is murdered in Ho Chi Minh City, and a package of forged documents goes missing. The pieces are there, but assembling the puzzle will cost Jack Ryan, Jr. and his fellow Campus agents precious time. Time they don't have. The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages , [8] pages of plates : illustrations (no color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers began secretly crossing the Manchurian border. As Americans moved deep into the snowy mountains of North Korea, toward the trap Mao had set along the frozen shores...
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