North Korea History

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 225 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • A New History of South and North
    • By: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • By: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Patrick McEachern
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format....

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
    • By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950....

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    • The Notorious History of the Hermit Kingdom's Supreme Leaders
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
    • Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • To say that the so-called Supreme Commanders of North Korea have been sticklers for submission would trivialize the more-than-troubling state of affairs that has plagued this precarious place for decades....

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    • My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
    • By: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border....

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    • The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un
    • By: Anna Fifield
    • Narrated by: Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea....

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    • My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
    • By: Suki Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 14-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....

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    • The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History
    • By: Paul Fischer
    • Narrated by: Stephen Park
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer, read by Stephen Park....

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    • By: Travis Jeppesen
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Travis Jeppesen goes beyond the cliches of "taboo tourism" and the "good versus evil" tenor of politicians and media reports. See You Again in Pyongyang is an essential addition to the literature about one of the world's most fascinating and mysterious places....

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    • Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
    • By: Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov - foreword
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Korean Peninsula and the Korean War
    • By: Will Forrest
    • Narrated by: Will Forrest
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Interested in learning about the history of Korea? This insightful book takes you on a journey through the political, economic, and cultural development of both North and South Korea....

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    • History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea
    • By: Katie Stallard
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack....

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    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • By: Jieun Baek
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

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    • From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
    • By: Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
    • Narrated by: Raymond Lee
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States....

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