The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

Anna Fifield

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Korea, North Korea, Biography: historical, political & military, Politics & government

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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.

THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command.

One of the most knowledgeable journalists on modern Korea, Anna Fifield has exclusive access to Kim's aunt and uncle who posed as his parents while he was growing up in Switzerland, members of the entourage that accompanied Dennis Rodman on his quasi-ambassadorial visits with Kim, and the Japanese sushi chef whom Kim befriended and who was the first outsider to identify him as the inevitable successor to his father as supreme ruler. She has been able to create a captivating portrait of the oddest and most isolated political regime in the world, one that is broken yet able to summon a US president for peace talks, bankrupt yet in possession of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong Un; ridiculous but deadly, and a man of our times.

Praise for The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

Anna Fifield owns the North Korea story today in a way that few other journalists, myself included, have ever been able to claim mastery over this most elusive subject - Barbara Demick, author of the bestselling Nothing to Envy
An important and rigorous piece of journalism written with clarity and urgency - Sunday Times
Astonishing and insightful - the inside story of the mercurial man now making headlines, and history. Essential reading - Lyse Doucet
Packed with the fascinating and frequently bizarre anecdotal detail - The Times
By far the most complete insight into the Hermit Kingdom I have ever seen. Full of fascinating details - Christina Lamb
Superb . . . a detailed account of a regime and a personality that are normally shrouded in mystery - Financial Times
Fascinating - Mail on Sunday
Anna Fifield's excellent account, based on years of reporting from Korea, dispenses with the overfamiliar anecdotes about this ghastly spoiled-brat-turned-dictator - Evening Standard