JP Floru

The Sun Tyrant (eBook, ePUB)

A Nightmare Called North Korea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Londoner JP Floru tags along with three friends running the marathon in Pyongyang, little could have prepared him for what he witnessed. Shown by two minders what the regime wants them to see during their nine-day trip, the group is astounded when witnessing people bowing to their leaders' statues; being told not to take photos of the leaders' feet; and hearing the hushed reverence with which people recite the history invented by the regime to keep itself in power. Often, the group did not understand what they were seeing: from the empty five-lane motorway to the missing fifth floor of their Yanggakdo Hotel on an island in the Pudong River; many answers only came through extensive research of the few sources that exist about this hermit country. Shocking and scary, The Sun Tyrant uncovers the oddities and tragedies at the heart of the world's most secretive regime, and shows what happens when a population is reduced to near-slavery in the twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785902888
• Artikelnr.: 48528759

Autorenporträt

JP Floru is an author, solicitor and political commentator whose articles have appeared in many newspapers and magazines. He is the author of two books about political economy: What the Immigrant Saw (2011) and Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity (2013). Floru has written extensively about political economy in the Far East. He lives in London with his cat, Mischief.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Foreword xi Preface xv Chapter One North Koreans don't eat grass
(or do they?) 1 Chapter Two Women: take care of your husband's hairstyle 27
Chapter Three How to make a North Korean win 47 the marathon Chapter Four
Bowing to the tyrants' statues 75 Chapter Five Firing missiles while the
people starve 99 Chapter Six Expat slaves 119 Chapter Seven Access to this
information 151 is temporarily unavailable Chapter Eight Cool kids with
Molotov cocktails 167 Chapter Nine Those from the wrong class stand 183 in
the back row Chapter Ten State-sponsored crime 197 Chapter Eleven Red-eyed,
medal-encrusted generals 217 Chapter Twelve What do you give a tyrant 231
who has everything? Chapter Thirteen The Leaders love their flowers 241
Chapter Fourteen Hiding memory cards in bread rolls 259 Annexe Principles
for Unitary Ideology of 1974 271 Acknowledgements 275 Bibliography 277
Index 281