The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea
The Sister: The extraordinary story of Kim Yo Jong, the most powerful woman in North Korea
- Author/Seller
- Sung-Yoon Lee
- SKU:
- 9781529073546
$37.00
This first book on Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister, tipped to be his
successor, is a jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and murderous
dynasty.
Readable yet authoritative - and full of insights into a dynasty that could rival the Medicis when it comes to greed and murder. Kim Yo Jong is never far from the news herself, most recently thwarting US hopes
of nuclear talks with her country and ordering the death of public officials 'who got
on her nerves'. Author Sung-Yoon Lee is an expert on North Korea who has advised the US
government and appeared on varying news as a commentator.
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo-jong in
North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state,
she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future.
She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and, as her murderous regime’s
chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the most
powerful woman in North Korea’s history. Cruel but charming, she threatens and
insults foreign leaders with sardonic wit. A princess by birth with great
expectations for her macabre kingdom, she was brought up to believe it is her
mission to reunite North Korea with the South, or die trying. She’s pretty, she
seems demure, she is cold, and she’s incredibly dangerous.
The Sister, written by Sung-Yoon Lee, a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies
and a specialist on North Korea,is a fascinating, authoritative account of the
mysterious world of North Korea and its ruling dynasty – a family whose lust for
power entails torturing and starving its people into submission, killing dissenters,
and threatening nuclear war.
Sung-Yoon Lee is a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies and a specialist on North Korea. He is the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Faculty Associate at the Program on US–Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Dr Lee has advised senior-most officials in the US government and is an outspoken proponent of several policies aimed at changing the North Korean regime towards a path of denuclearization and improvement of human rights, while keeping the peace and stability in northeast Asia. In 2013, the Guardian called Lee ‘[a]mong the most insightful and prescient chroniclers’. The Sister is his first book.
successor, is a jaw-dropping insight into a secretive and murderous
dynasty.
Readable yet authoritative - and full of insights into a dynasty that could rival the Medicis when it comes to greed and murder. Kim Yo Jong is never far from the news herself, most recently thwarting US hopes
of nuclear talks with her country and ordering the death of public officials 'who got
on her nerves'. Author Sung-Yoon Lee is an expert on North Korea who has advised the US
government and appeared on varying news as a commentator.
Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo-jong in
North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state,
she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future.
She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and, as her murderous regime’s
chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the most
powerful woman in North Korea’s history. Cruel but charming, she threatens and
insults foreign leaders with sardonic wit. A princess by birth with great
expectations for her macabre kingdom, she was brought up to believe it is her
mission to reunite North Korea with the South, or die trying. She’s pretty, she
seems demure, she is cold, and she’s incredibly dangerous.
The Sister, written by Sung-Yoon Lee, a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies
and a specialist on North Korea,is a fascinating, authoritative account of the
mysterious world of North Korea and its ruling dynasty – a family whose lust for
power entails torturing and starving its people into submission, killing dissenters,
and threatening nuclear war.
Sung-Yoon Lee is a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies and a specialist on North Korea. He is the Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Faculty Associate at the Program on US–Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Dr Lee has advised senior-most officials in the US government and is an outspoken proponent of several policies aimed at changing the North Korean regime towards a path of denuclearization and improvement of human rights, while keeping the peace and stability in northeast Asia. In 2013, the Guardian called Lee ‘[a]mong the most insightful and prescient chroniclers’. The Sister is his first book.
