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My Friend Kim Jong Un
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Presidents & Heads of StateGeneral Graphic NovelsKorean History
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ISBN10: 1770468226
ISBN13: 9781770468221
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781770468221
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
Award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim demystifies the inscrutable North Korean leader
A woman falls over a thin black line, slicing her in two--half becoming North Korea, the other half becoming South. From the Island of Ganghwa, a seemingly idyllic rural paradise just an hour outside of Seoul, North Korea sits mere miles away, visible from cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's home and studio. It looms over her while she walks her dogs through the rice paddies. Artillery fire, helicopters, and sirens from a nearby military base paint her acoustic landscape. Gendry-Kim has written extensively about the pain and heartbreak experienced throughout Korea's recent history in her award-winning books Grass and The Waiting. In My friend Kim Jong-Un, Gendry-Kim looks not to the past, but to the present--to the man currently responsible for upholding the national divide. Retracing his rise to power and uncovering his human side, Gendry-Kim explores the life of the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: from his birth to his international education, his tastes and hobbies, and his relationships. Gendry-Kim weaves her personal accounts from this process throughout the book, in her signature approach to personal nonfiction by including interviews with former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, North Korean defectors, researchers, journalists, Kim's former chef, and a friend from his boarding school days in Switzerland. My Friend Kim Jong-Un carries a message of peace and attempts to make sense of an awful chapter in Korean history. Translated by the award-winning Canadian Janet Hong, My Friend... is a cautionary tale and education on what makes a dictator, at a time when these lessons are more relevant in the West than ever.Also from
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