Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader

"Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader" offers in-depth portraits of North Korea's two ruthless and bizarrely Orwellian leaders, Kim II-Sun and Kim Jong-II. Lifting North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation, this book will take readers inside a society that, to a Westerner, will appear to be from another planet. Subsisting on a diet short on food and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from birth to follow unquestioningly a father-son team of megalomaniacs. Revised and expanded for the paperback edition, this fascinating, definitive history brings the reader right up the present day tensions. For as this book direly predicted, North Korea has a legitimate nuclear programme and appears to be the greatest threat to the world today.

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""Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader" is, from all I have read, simply the best book ever written about North Korea. Relying largely on extensive interviews with defectors, Martin portrays North Korean life with a clarity that is stunning, and he captures the paradoxes in North Korean public opinion."--Nicholas D. Kristof, "The New York Review of Books"<br> "Martin's massive book provides as useful a set of insights into life in North Korea as can be found anywhere."<br>- "L.A. Times Review" <br>"As an AP correspondent covering South Korea in the 1970s, I learned quickly how difficult it was to discover any reliable information about that secretive, threatening regime to the north. Brad Martin's book is testimony to the thoroughness of his work, and the high level of his ability as a journalist and researcher. <br>" North Korea is one of the least known, least understood countries in the world. Its leaders have always been enigmas, both frightening and fascinating, buto

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Bradley K. Martin has covered North Korea for The Asian Wall Street Journal and Newsweek.

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