North Korea History

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • Written by: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • Written by: Patrick McEachern
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format....

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    • Ordinary Lives in North Korea
    • Written by: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2009-12-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong-il....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • Written by: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society
    • Written by: Jieun Baek
    • Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the least understood countries in the world, North Korea has long been known for its repressive regime. Yet it is far from being an impenetrable black box. Media flows covertly....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Korean History, Including Events Such as the Mongol Invasions, the Split into North and South, and the Korean War
    • Written by: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Korean Peninsula today is divided into two, but there was a time when this peninsula was divided into many states. Over the course of time, and besieged by expansive transient dynasties outside of this modest piece of land, many clans and tribes overran their lands....

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • Written by: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • A New History of South and North
    • Written by: Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2023-08-15
    • Language: English
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    • Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day....

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    • Written by: Michael Palin
    • Narrated by: Michael Palin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin ventured into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, camera crew in tow, to gain a glimpse of life in the most notoriously secretive and cut-off nation on earth....

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    • Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
    • Written by: Jack Cheevers
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2013-12-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea....

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    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • Written by: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2014-07-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

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    • My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
    • Written by: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 2018-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border....

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    • My Escape from North Korea
    • Written by: Sebastien Falletti, Eunsun Kim
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2015-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child, Eunsun loved her country....

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    • Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
    • Written by: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    • Written by: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Eji Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 476 ratings
    • In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....

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    • One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
    • Written by: Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2015-10-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations....

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    • A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
    • Written by: Jung H. Pak
    • Narrated by: Jung H. Pak
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 2020-04-28
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a leading American expert....

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    • My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
    • Written by: Suki Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2014-10-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....

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    • Written by: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
    • Narrated by: Stephen Park
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education"....

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