Dear Leader

Jang Jin-Sung was one of North Koreas most senior counter-intelligence officers, a member of Kim Jong-Ils inner circle, with all the privileges that entailed. Yet he could not ignore the disparity between his own life and the lives of the people he saw starving in the street. In this harrowing first-hand account, he describes the inner workings of the secretive state, and recounts his own daring escape across a frozen river into China to freedom in the West.