{"product_id":"the-rebel-and-the-kingdom-the-true-story-of-the-secret-mission-to-overthrow-the-north-korean-regime","title":"The Rebel and the Kingdom The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisponibilità soggetta a conferma. Tempi di evasione dell'ordine comunicati al momento dell'acquisto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Propulsive . . . Deeply reported and novelistic. I flew through it' Ed Caesar\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Jaw dropping even for North Korea . . . A terrific piece of up-close reportage that reads like a spy thriller but is all too real' Anna Fifield\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e HOW DID A COLLEGE KID BECOME A GLOBAL FUGITIVE?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Rebel and the Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e -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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Libreria Fiore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54120513405274,"sku":null,"price":15.68,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/7382\/1274\/files\/10429963482686.jpg?v=1778229627","url":"https:\/\/libreriafiore.it\/products\/the-rebel-and-the-kingdom-the-true-story-of-the-secret-mission-to-overthrow-the-north-korean-regime","provider":"Libreria Fiore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}