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100	1		_aHarden, Blaine, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe great leader and the fighter pilot : _bthe true story of the tyrant who created North Korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom / _cBlaine Harden.
260			_aUSA _bViking, _c2015.
300			_a290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Players and Game -- Part I: Guerrilla and Rich Boy -- Beginnings -- Poodle and Pretender -- Sweet-Talking Stalin -- Part II: War -- Great Liberation Struggle -- Kicked in the Teeth -- MiGs -- Return to North Korea -- An International Sporting Event -- Attack Maps and Defection Bribes -- Uncle Yoo -- Part III: Flight -- Flying Clear -- Squeezing the Moolah -- Right Stuff and Fake Stuff -- Learning and Purging -- Epilogue -- Time Line.
520	2		_a"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). The theft--just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953--electrified the world and incited Kim's bloody vengeance. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. intelligence and interrogation files, Harden gives us a heart-pounding escape adventure and an entirely new way to understand the world's longest-lasting totalitarian state"--
600	1	0	_aKim, Il-sŏng, _d1912-1994.
600	1	0	_aNo, Kum-Sok.
650		0	_aDictators _zKorea (North) _vBiography.
650		0	_aFighter pilots _zKorea (North) _vBiography.
650		0	_aDefectors _zKorea (North) _vBiography.
650		0	_aTheft _zKorea (North) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEscapes _zKorea (North) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aKorean War, 1950-1953 _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Military / Korean War. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / Korea. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aKorea (North) _xHistory _y1948-1994 _vBiography.
651		0	_aKorea (North) _xPolitics and government _y1948-1994.
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