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The Great Successor

The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

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The Great Successor

Auteur(s): Anna Fifield
Narrateur(s): Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
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The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.

Since his birth in 1984, Kim Jong Un has been swaddled in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly - he could supposedly drive a car at the age of three - to the grimly bloody stories of family members who perished at his command.

Anna Fifield reconstructs Kim's past and present with exclusive access to sources near him and brings her unique understanding to explain the dynastic mission of the Kim family in North Korea. The archaic notion of despotic family rule matches the almost medieval hardship the country has suffered under the Kims. Few people thought that a young, untested, unhealthy, Swiss-educated basketball fanatic could hold together a country that should have fallen apart years ago. But Kim Jong Un has not just survived, he has thrived, abetted by the approval of Donald Trump and diplomacy's weirdest bromance.

Skeptical yet insightful, Fifield creates a captivating portrait of the oddest and most secretive political regime in the world - one that is isolated yet internationally relevant, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons - and its ruler, the self-proclaimed Beloved and Respected Leader, Kim Jong Un.

©2019 Anna Fifield (P)2019 Hachette Audio
Asie Idéologies et doctrines Politiciens Politique Politique et militantisme Présidents et chefs d'État Sciences politiques Japon impérial Chine Politique étrangère américaine

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Intelligent, insightful, sometimes comic, and also worrying: Anna Fifield has written a vivid, compelling, and, above all, illuminating portrait of a rogue family's rule over the world's most reclusive nation." (General David Petraeus (US Army, ret.), director of the CIA when Kim Jong Un became leader)

"A compelling mix of biography, cultural history, and political intrigue." (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review)

"With a journalist's eye for detail and with the gift of a storyteller, Anna Fifield has written the quintessential bible on Kim Jong Un. No one working to solve the North Korean puzzle should let The Great Successor sit on a bookshelf; it's a must-read." (Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and author of Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence)

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Fascinating subject matter & well presented but the book itself can be dull in some parts.

Interesting

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A sweeping arch of North Korean history through the lives of its there leaders and the succession of the Kim family line in a critical but informed perspective. If you want to understand the politics of North Korea, this book is a good place to start.

Enlightening look into current North Korea

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I couldn’t stop listening to it and found it really interesting. It left me wanting to know more about North Korea. Unfortunately for the listener it feels as though Fifield has exhausted and explored all aspects of the topic and because of this being published I can’t imagine she would be allowed to return to North Korea.

Worth listening to/ or reading if you have an interest in Kim Jong Un’s North Korea.

Seemingly comprehensive look at Kim Jong Um

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