Brilliance Audio
Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk about Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
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- Daniel Tudor
- Brilliance Audio
- Audio
- 9781543685824
- 5.4 X 6.4 X 1.1 inches
- 0.45 pounds
- History > Asia - Korea
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.
The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the Hermit Kingdom.
North Korean contributors to this book include:
- Seong who came to South Korea after dropping out during his final year of his university. He is now training to be an elementary school teacher.
- Kang who left North Korea in 2005. He now lives in London, England.
- Cheol who was from South Hamgyeong in North Korea and is now a second-year university student in Seoul.
- Park worked and studied in Pyongyang before defecting to the U.S. in 2011. He is now studying at a U.S. college.
Author Bio
Daniel Tudor is a British journalist who holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, an MBA from the University of Manchester and moved to Korea a decade ago.
Tudor has worked as Korea correspondent for The Economist, written for several Korean newspapers and opened a chain of craft beer pubs in Seoul.
He is the author of three books on Korea. The first one, “Korea – The Impossible Country”, was published in 2012; A Geek in Korea – Discovering Asia’s New Kingdom of Cool” in 2014.
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors in 2015 was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2015.
He is now based in London as co-founder of Byline.com, a crowdfunded journalism platform and he is also co-founder of Seoul-based The Booth Brewing Company
Source: Tuttle Publishing
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