The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot - Escaping Tyranny in North Korea

<p>A non-fiction thriller by international bestselling author Blaine Harden (<i>Escape from Camp 14</i>) that explores the world's most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obscure: Kim Il Sung, the former North Korean leader and No Kum Sok, once the state's youngest jet fighter pilot.</p><p>Shortly before the Korean War ended, No Kum Sok met Kim Il Sung, who congratulated him for his flying skill and his courage. A few months later, No Kum Sok stole a Soviet-made MiG-15 and flew it to a US airfield in South Korea.</p><p> Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 and ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War, <i>The Great Leader &amp; the Fighter Pilot</i> is an ambitious and gripping book which digs deeply into the character of the Kim family dictatorship.</p><p>At once an irresistible adventure story and an authoritative guide to the notorious state, it explains why North Korea remains so isolated, why it created and maintains a vast gulag of concentration camps, and why it is still so angry at the western world.</p>