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The Sun Tyrant
The Sun Tyrant: A Nightmare Called North Korea | JP Floru
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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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Another day, another book. I have a weird fascination with North Korea and so have read a lot of books about the hermit kingdom - mainly autobiographies of people who have escaped the regime. This one is by a tourist who went to Pyongyang to run the marathon so will be interesting to see how his experience differs from the other books I've read!