Overview
āPropulsive . . . Hopeās account is both deeply reported and novelistic.āāEd Caesar, contributing staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Moth and the Mountain
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world.Ā After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it.
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What began as a trip down the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed into something more dangerous. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helpedĀ asylum-seeking North Koreans escape across the border.Ā Meanwhile, Hongās secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean governmentās activities, and its volatile third-generation 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 dictatorās older brother, Hong, along with U.S. Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Kim Jong-namās family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiatedĀ a series ofĀ high-stakes direct actions, culminating inĀ an armedĀ raid at the North Korean embassy in Madridāan act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the worldās most unlikely fugitives.
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In the tradition of Jon Krakauerās Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quoāto instead live boldly by his principles. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hopeāwho broke numerous details of Hongās operations in The Wall Street Journalānow reveals the full contours of this remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future of the worldās most mysterious and unsettling nation.
This book title, The Rebel and the Kingdom (The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime), ISBN: 9780593240656, by Bradley Hope, published by Crown (September 27, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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