Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader

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"Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Lifting Pyongyang's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book takes readers inside a society that to a Westerner may appear to be from another planet.

Subsisting on a diet short on grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from infancy to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of despots." Defectors say Kim Jong-il has, besides nuclear bombs, enough chemical weapons to wipe out the entire population of South Korea. Under the circumstances, the author cautions, negotiation is far more promising than the highly risky alternative of forcible regime change."

Good for readers who want: politics, a true life story, history, and a long read.

• Politics and government
• Biography
• Korea, politics and government
• Korea, biography
• History
• Heads of state