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    • The Impossible Country
    • By: Daniel Tudor
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People
    • By: Michael J. Seth
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners, and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • One Man's Escape from North Korea
    • By: Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi - translator, Martin Brown - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,935 ratings
    • Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste....

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    • The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
    • By: Lawrence Freedman
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use armed forces effectively, but also to understand the political context in which they are operating....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Eji Kim
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,960 ratings
    • In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day....

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    • The Stories, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Folktales, and History of Korea
    • By: William Elliot Griffis, Im Bang, Yi Ryuk, Horace Newton Allen
    • Narrated by: James Francis Markert
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Dive deep into the enchanting world of Korean mythology with this comprehensive collection that brings together three classic works on Korea's rich tapestry of tales, legends, and folklore. Whether you're a lover of mythology or otherwise, this collection offers a treasure trove of stories....

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    • What Everyone Needs to Know
    • By: Patrick McEachern
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Robert J. McMahon
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more....

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    • History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea
    • By: Katie Stallard
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
    • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, authoritarian rule is on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack....

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    • Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
    • By: Jack Cheevers
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 614 ratings
    • In 1968, a small, dilapidated American spy ship set out on a dangerous mission to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea....

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    • My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
    • By: Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Fredrick
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border....

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    • The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
    • By: Hawon Jung
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Author Hawon Jung illuminates the strength and tenacity of trailblazing South Korea women who have taken to the streets, and takes the listener into the trenches of the fight for gender equality....

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    • Inside the World's Most Secret State
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 651 ratings
    • North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching....

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    • By: Bob Woodward
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11,328 ratings
    • Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest....

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    • A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America
    • By: Yeonmi Park
    • Narrated by: Maureen Taylor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape....

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