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The Rebel and the Kingdom - The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime (Hardcover)
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The Rebel and the Kingdom - The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime (Hardcover)
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'A propulsive investigation into the wild adventures of a man
determined to bring down the North Korean regime . . . Deeply
reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar, author of
The Moth and the Mountain 'The engrossing inside story of two
recent events that are jaw dropping even for North Korea, and the
obsessive man behind them . . . A terrific piece of up-close
reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna
Fifield, author of The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of
Kim Jong Un HOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE? In the
early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate
looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing
account of life inside North Korea, he realised he had found a
cause to which he could devote his life. Hong journeyed to China,
outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry
asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. Meanwhile, Hong's
secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free
Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government's activities,
and its volatile ruler, Kim Jong-un. Free Joseon targeted North
Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up
plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight
assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong-nam, the dictator's older
brother, Hong, along with US Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped
ferry Jong-nam's family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step
further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions,
culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid
- an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of
the world's most unlikely global fugitives. The Rebel and the
Kingdom is an exhilarating account of how a trip down the safe and
well-worn path of activism soon morphed into something extremely
dangerous. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope
- who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in the Wall
Street Journal -reveals his remarkable story of idealism and
insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for
the future of the world's most mysterious and unsettling nation.
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