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My Friend Kim Jong Un

내 친구 김정은

From her home on Ganghwa Island, just an hour from Seoul, cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim can see North Korea across the border. The constant sounds of artillery and helicopters from a nearby military base are a daily reminder of the national divide. In this personal nonfiction work, she turns her attention to the man at the center of it all: Kim Jong-Un, the supreme leader of North Korea.

Gendry-Kim retraces Kim Jong-Un's rise to power, exploring his life from birth to his international education, his tastes and hobbies, and his relationships. She weaves together interviews with a former South Korean president, North Korean defectors, researchers, journalists, Kim's former chef, and a friend from his boarding school days in Switzerland. Through these accounts, she attempts to uncover the human side of the inscrutable leader and understand the present reality of the Korean divide.

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