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Bloomsbury presents The Best Kind of American: Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas, read by Kim Ghattas and Nan McNamara A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian...

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...

Accidental Tyrant serves as a stark cautionary tale, underscoring that the triumph of liberty is never guaranteed. Met with insufficient resistance, even the most unlikely leader can build a regime of repression and privation that long outlives its founder.

This program includes an author's note read by the author. North Korea is poised at the crossroads of history. Which direction will its leader take? Throughout the world, oppressive regimes are being uprooted and replaced by budding democracies, but one exception remains: The People's Republic...

Wie viele Touristen jährlich Nordkorea besuchen, lässt sich exakt sagen: Wenige. Und nur einer kam wegen einer Wasserrutsche. Satiriker und TV-Autor Christian Eisert reiste 1500 Kilometer durch die Kim-Diktatur. An seiner Seite eine kratzbürstige Fotoreporterin mit gefälschter Biografie - und der nordkoreanische Geheimdienst. Diese Ferien in Nordkorea halten viele Überraschungen bereit: Hotelzimmer mit Softeisautomaten, Gestecke aus Blumen und Raketen und an der gefährlichsten Grenze der Welt: Ein Tänzchen zu "Tränen lügen nicht".

In 2017, the world watched as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traded personal insults and escalating threats of nuclear war amid unprecedented shows of military force. Former Pentagon insider and Korean security expert Van Jackson traces the origins of the first American nuclear crisis in the post-Cold War era and explains the fragile, highly unpredictable way that it ended.  

La Corea del Nord è una dittatura militare con a capo uno dei leader più giovani al mondo, Kim Jong-un. Figlio di una figura storica del suo Paese, in pochi anni è riuscito a dominare la scena politica grazie anche ai metodi poco ortodossi della dittatura.