The Sun Tyrant
eBook - ePub

The Sun Tyrant

A Nightmare Called North Korea

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sun Tyrant

A Nightmare Called North Korea

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
  8. 1: North Koreans don’t eat grass (or do they?)
  9. 2: Women: take care of your husband’s hairstyle
  10. 3: How to make a North Korean win the marathon
  11. 4: Bowing to the tyrants’ statues
  12. 5: Firing missiles while the people starve
  13. 6: Expat slaves
  14. 7: Access to this information is temporarily unavailable
  15. 8: Cool kids with Molotov cocktails
  16. 9: Those from the wrong class stand in the back row
  17. 10: State-sponsored crime
  18. 11: Red-eyed, medal-encrusted generals
  19. 12: What do you give a tyrant who has everything?
  20. 13: The Leaders love their flowers
  21. 14: Hiding memory cards in bread rolls
  22. Annexe Principles for Unitary Ideology of 1974
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Copyright