North Korea undercover
Subtitle: inside the world's most secret state
By: John Sweeney
Series: Clipper
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Rearsby, Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781471261176
Subjects: Travel; Large type books; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Civilization; History; Politics and government; Description and travel; Economic history
Description: In March 2013 BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney went undercover to gain unprecedented access to North Korea. Posing as a university professor, Sweeney saw the reality behind the world's most secret state. He spoke to people who have seen the horrific dark side of the regime and saw things which have been hidden for years from the eyes of the western world: huge factories with no staff or electricity; uniformed child soldiers working in a zoo; and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ - the De-Militarized Zone where North Korea ends and South Korea starts - all framed by the relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent and crackly loudspeakers. The book covers the country's troubled history.
Notes: Published by W.F. Howes Ltd under the Clipper imprint.

Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. In the land of the plastic toad; title: 2. Zombie gods seep goo; title: 3. God the waxwork father; title: 4. "No photos, no photos"; title: 5. Jimmy the gold-smuggler; title: 6. Pyongyang Zoo; title: 7. Scariest place on Earth; title: 8. Facing the final curtain; title: 9. Cruel Christs of pus; title: 10. Pissing on marble; title: 11. "Would the Dear Leader not be offended by such a gift?"; title: 12. Man who went to North Korea and came back mad; title: 13. Washing of brains; title: 14. God the bad Elvis son; title: 15. Fifty shades of green; title: 16. Empty bellies; title: 17. American who went to North Korea and stayed; title: 18. Hospital that has patients, but only in the morning; title: 19. Gulag circus; title: 20. God the fat boy Kim.