Bradley Hope
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
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Adrian Hong was a Yale undergraduate who became a global fugitive after reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea. He journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services, and helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. He also initiated an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid, which put US Marine veteran Christopher Ahn behind bars and turned Hong into one of the world's most unlikely global fugitives.
Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause to which he could devote his life. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. Meanwhile, Hong's secret organization, Cheollima Civil Defense (later renamed Free Joseon), began tracking the North Korean government's activities, and its volatile ruler, Kim Jong-un.
Free Joseon targeted North Korean diplomats who might be persuaded to defect, while drawing up plans for a government-in-exile. After the shocking broad-daylight assassination in 2017 of Kim Jong-nam, the dictator's older brother, Hong, along with US Marine veteran Christopher Ahn, helped ferry Jong-nam's family to safety. Then Hong took the group a step further. He initiated a series of high-stakes direct actions, culminating in an armed raid at the North Korean embassy in Madrid - an act that would put Ahn behind bars and turn Hong into one of the world's most unlikely global fugitives.
The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of how a trip down the safe and well-worn path of activism soon morphed into something extremely dangerous. Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope - who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in the Wall Street Journal - reveals his remarkable story.
Weight: 494g
Dimension: 165 x 243 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399806176
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