6 Top memoir books like The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield

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The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

By: Anna Fifield

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,…

"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in Bern. "I would destroy all terrorists with the Hollywood star Jean-Claude van Damme."

-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

If you liked the memoir plot in The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor, James Pearson

1. North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

By: Daniel Tudor , James Pearson

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist ** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future by Victor Cha

2. The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

By: Victor Cha

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

"A meaty, fast-paced portrait of North Korean society, economy, politics and foreign policy." -Fore… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • asia
  • nonfiction
Cover of Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim

3. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

4. Korea: The Impossible Country

By: Daniel Tudor

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

South Korea was "the poorest, most impossible country on the planet"when it was founded, according … read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot

5. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

By: Paul Fischer

4.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin… read more

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7. Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

By: Michael Malice

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

No country is as misunderstood as North Korea, and no modern tyrant has remained more mysterious th… read more

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8. Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee—A Look Inside North Korea

By: Jang Jin-sung , Shirley Lee

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent… read more

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Cover of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung

9. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

By: Hawon Jung

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick

10. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Cover of The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield

11. The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

By: Anna Fifield

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant,… read more

Similar categories in Anna Fifield's The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un book and Anna Fifield's The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • asia
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Kim Jong Chol even found a way to work the Belgian movie star into his school work. "If I had my idea world I would not allow weapons and atom bombs any more," he wrote in a school project while in B…"

-Anna Fifield, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

Cover of Hongkong. Powiedz, że kochasz Chiny by Piotr Bernardyn

12. Hongkong. Powiedz, że kochasz Chiny

By: Piotr Bernardyn

3.85

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Historia współczesnego Hongkongu rozpoczyna się w połowie XIX wieku wraz z przybyciem Brytyjczyków.… read more

Similar categories in Piotr Bernardyn's Hongkong. Powiedz, że kochasz Chiny book and Anna Fifield's The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un

  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak

13. Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator

By: Jung H. Pak

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Un, from his nuclear ambiti… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha

14. Korea: A New History of South and North

By: Victor Cha

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day  … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
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  • audiobook
Cover of North Korea Journal by Michael Palin

15. North Korea Journal

By: Michael Palin

3.85

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARYA glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as … read more

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"My philosophy of travel, such as it is, is that the more difficult somewhere is to get to, the greater the prize to be won by getting there. But when the prize was North Korea, I found this was not a…"

-Michael Palin, North Korea Journal

Cover of The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope

16. The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

By: Bradley Hope

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

How did an Ivy League activist become a global fugitive? The tale of a self-taught operative and hi… read more

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Cover of Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop by Ramon Pacheco Pardo

17. Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

By: Ramon Pacheco Pardo

4.30

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and… read more

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Cover of The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee

18. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea

By: Sung-Yoon Lee

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The onset of Covid-19 has coincided with the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in N… read more

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Cover of Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech by Geoffrey Cain

19. Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

By: Geoffrey Cain

3.65

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in Americ… read more

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Cover of The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea by Jihyun Park

20. The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea

By: Jihyun Park

4.25

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. … read more

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Cover of South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success by John Gonzalez

21. South Korea: The Price of Efficiency and Success

By: John Gonzalez

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

South Korea's extraordinary economic and technological transformation after the Korean War (1950-19… read more

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4.35

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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

4.45

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4.12

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3.68

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Hawon Jung

4.35

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil

4.31

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Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

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