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An authoritative and, at times, frightening investigation into the dark side of North Korean society.North Korea is like no other tyranny on earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation on earth. Big Brother is always watching: It is Orwell's 1984 made reality.Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few foreign journalists to have witnessed the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea, having entered the country undercover, posing as a university professor with a group of students from the London School of Economics.Huge factories with no staff or electricity; hospitals with no patients; uniformed child soldiers; and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ—the DeMilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins—all framed by the relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line and the...
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- Author
- John Sweeney
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books, LLC
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781605988023
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Political Science, Travel
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (500 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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