![]() Eventually, he did just that, crossing the border to South Korea in a MiG-15 and leaving Kim and communism behind for good. He joined the navy and volunteered to become a fighter pilot in hopes of flying his way out of North Korea. No spent five years pretending to be zealously committed to the party in order to protect himself long enough to put his plan into action. The once-privileged son of a factory owner under Japanese rule, No disliked communism and its constraints from the start and began planning his escape the first time he heard Kim speak in person. In narrating the rise of North Korea’s first communist dictator, Kim Il Sung, Harden ties Kim’s story to that of defector No Kum Sok. Harden ( Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, 2012, etc.) skillfully fuses all his narrative threads into one united chronicle. The carnage of war, the rise of a dictator and one North Korean defector’s life story all come together in this combination of biography, military history and exposé. ![]()
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