The great successor : the secret rise and rule of Kim Jong Un
Fifield, Anna2020
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'The Great Successor' is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly - he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way - to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command. One of the most knowledgeable journalists on modern Korea, Anna Fifield has exclusive access to Kim's aunt and uncle who posed as his parents while he was growing up in Switzerland, members of the entourage that accompanied Dennis Rodman on his quasi-ambassadorial visits with Kim, and the Japanese sushi chef whom Kim befriended and who was the first outsider to identify him as the inevitable successor to his father as supreme ruler.
Main title:
The great successor : the secret rise and rule of Kim Jong Un / Anna Fifield.
Author:
Fifield, Anna, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2020.
Collation:
xiv, 308 pages : illustration (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529387254 (pbk)
Dewey class:
951.93052092951.93
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2910376
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