North Korea Politics

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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 224 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • 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 Gripping Novel About an American Held Captive in a North Korean Prison Camp
    • By: Alana Terry
    • Narrated by: Dave Bandfield
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Ian McAllister has searched the world over hunting for that all-elusive perfect photograph. He finds it on a tourist trip to North Korea when he stumbles upon a young street kid foraging for roots. Unaware that this single act will brand him a spy and cost his freedom, Ian takes the shot....

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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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    • From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
    • By: Geoff White
    • Narrated by: Geoff White
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Meet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. They form one of the most effective criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more than one billion dollars in an international crime spree....

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    • The Deception Series, Book 1
    • By: Richard Lyntton
    • Narrated by: Richard Lyntton
    • Series: The Deception Series, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Jack Steele survived the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and his time as a UN peacekeeper. As a captain and tank commander, he saw the dark side of war. Two UN officials have gone missing. They were last seen in the Tumen Triangle....

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    • One Man's Escape from North Korea
    • By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Martin Brown - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 290 ratings
    • Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste....

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    • Human Rights, Arms Control, and Strategies for Negotiation (Asia in the New Millennium)
    • By: Walter C. Clemens Jr.
    • Narrated by: Andy Rose
    • Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 28-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In North Korea and the World, Clemens poses the question, "Can, should, and must we negotiate with a regime we regard as evil?" He concludes that the answer is yes....

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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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    • One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
    • By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
    • Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....

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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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    • 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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    • The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
    • By: Bradley Hope
    • Narrated by: Lee Osorio
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The wild story of a college activist's high-stakes attempt to topple the North Korean regime and change the world....

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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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    • The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea
    • By: Sung-Yoon Lee
    • Narrated by: Dexter Galang
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The onset of COVID-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future....

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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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    • 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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