Dear Leader

'The 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-Il's face will soon appeara As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-Sung led a charmed life. With food provisions, 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 that he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-Sung must flee for his life. Dear Leader is an unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive country, as well as the incredible true story of the author's flight to freedom. This very rare, first-hand account reveals the truth behind the propaganda and exposes a side of North Korea which has never before been seen.