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    North Korea Confidential

    Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

    by Daniel Tudor, James Pearson ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    **Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Reluctant Communist

    My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

    by Charles Robert Jenkins ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. 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. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    See You Again in Pyongyang

    A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

    by Travis Jeppesen ...
    Narrated by Will Collyer ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and hidden love of foreign media, as well as their dreams ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Ask a North Korean

    Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation

    by Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov ...
    Narrated by P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors.The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom."North Korean contributors to this book ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活（中文版有聲書首度上市）

    Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by 芭芭拉．德米克(Barbara Demick) ...
    Narrated by 郭靜樺 ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 7 min

    ☆亞馬遜讀者五星書評，授權多國語言出版，中文版銷售突破10萬冊！中文版有聲書首度上市！☆增訂版收錄芭芭拉‧德米克新寫的長篇後記：金正日辭世後，北韓依舊是兩千三百萬人民的牢籠，近萬字的內容解析金正恩如何以全世界最年輕的國家元首之姿，鞏固看似垂危的政權，並補述六名脫北者的生活現況。＝極權主義文獻開創之作＝榮獲「2010年英國年度圖書獎」入選「2011年美國國家書卷獎非文學決選作品」《我們最幸福》是描寫朝鮮生活最好的一部作品！──英國圖書獎評委芭芭拉‧德米克用一種引人注目，而又讓人難忘的方式為人們展示出這個封閉的國家，其實就是喬治‧歐威爾《1984》的現實版朝鮮向來是個外人難以深入、臆測的一個祕密國度。夜空中，整個朝鮮地區都是黑的，那黑暗訴說著人民深不可測的痛苦，有時卻又穿插著零星微弱的希望曙光……與燈光閃耀的南韓相比，北韓好似黑夜與白晝。在這裡，飢荒奪去了數百萬人的性命，製... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    К северу от 38 параллели: Как живут в КНДР

    by Андрей Ланьков ...
    Narrated by Стефан Барковский ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 20 min

    Северная Корея, все еще невероятно засекреченная, перестает быть для мира "черным ящиком". Похоже, радикальный социальный эксперимент, который был начат там в 1940-х годах, подходит к концу. А за ним стоят судьбы людей — бесчисленное количество жизней. О том, как эти жизни были прожиты и что происходит в стране сейчас, рассказывает известный востоковед и публицист Андрей Ланьков. Автору ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Uma breve história da Guerra da Coreia: Como uma guerra esquecida moldou o mundo moderno

    by Demétrio Marinho ...
    Narrated by Demétrio Marinho ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    A Guerra Fria não começou apenas com discursos políticos, mas no campo de batalha brutal de um conflito esquecido. Transforme seu trajeto diário em uma imersão histórica tensa e fascinante sobre a geopolítica mundial. Compreenda como três anos de embates definiram as fronteiras e as ameaças nucleares que enfrentamos hoje.Muito além de estratégias militares e guerras por procuração, esta é a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    簡潔にたどる朝鮮史：ひとつの国はいかにして2つの世界になったのか

    by 宮本 俊太 ...
    Narrated by 宮本 俊太 ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 13 min

    ひとつのルーツを持つ朝鮮半島がいかにして二つの対極的な世界へと引き裂かれたのか、その地政学的な運命とアジア史の深層を紐解く歴史ノンフィクションです。静かで思索的な世界観は、毎日の通勤時間や夜の落ち着いたひとときを、豊かな教養と深い理解を育む至福のリスニング体験へと変えてくれます。古代の統一王朝から植民地時代、そして冷戦がもたらした悲劇的な分断まで、歴史のうねりの中で懸命に生きた普通の人々の息遣いを感じ取ることができます。単なる善悪の裁きを超えて「なぜ彼らはその道を歩んだのか」という問いに温かく寄り添うことで、隣国の遠い過去が、私たち自身の明日を照らす鏡として鮮やかに蘇ります。本書で見つかること:古代の部族社会から朝鮮王朝までの、豊かな文化と独自の政治体制の成り立ち。19世紀の社会のひずみと、日本による植民地支配が残した複雑で消し去れない影響。解放と同時に押し寄せた冷戦構造が引き起こした ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Korean Messiah

    Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult

    by Jonathan Cheng ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Cheng, Intae Kim ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity—a spectacular, penetrating account of the Hermit Kingdom • A Foreign Policy Most Anticipated Book of 2026For nearly eight decades, North Korea has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its Soviet and Chinese sponsors to emerge as the world’s most enigmatic nation—a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    History of Korea: The Land of Dynasties, War, and Division

    by David Langford ...
    Narrated by David Langford ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    Explore millennia of geopolitical conflict and cultural resilience in this gripping historical nonfiction audiobook. Perfect for an immersive daily commute or a deep-focus learning session, this epic saga transports you to a peninsula forged by rugged mountains and tribal warfare. Witness how relentless foreign pressures and power struggles birthed an identity that refused to be erased.Step beyond ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stars Between the Sun and Moon

    by Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland ...
    Narrated by Janet Song ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly, she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    A Kim Jong-Il Production

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

    by Paul Fischer ...
    Narrated by Stephen Park ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South Korea’s most famous actress—and her ex-husband Shin ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Korean History

    A Concise Overview of Warlords, Empires, Colonists, and More

    by Kelly Mass ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G ...

    Unabridged

    51 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In 37 BC, Jumong, posthumously titled Dongmyeongseong, laid the foundation for Goguryeo, later centralized by King Taejo. Under King Sosurim's reign in 372, Goguryeo embraced Buddhism as its official religion, marking a significant cultural shift.Goguryeo, also known as Goryeo or Kogury, played a pivotal role in shaping Korean history, ultimately ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Noord-Korea

    Een hoorcollege over de duistere daden van een onbekende kernmacht

    by Remco Breuker ...
    Narrated by Remco Breuker ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 59 min

    De Democratische Volksrepubliek van Korea is niet democratisch, het is geen republiek en het omvat slechts de helft van Korea. Remco Breuker kijkt in zijn vier colleges voorbij de mythes en beeldvorming en gaat in op wat Noord-Korea wél is. Dan blijkt Noord-Korea een feodale monarchie te zijn die niet geïsoleerd is, maar juist internationaal economisch heel actief. Zo verdient het een fortuin met ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    De wereld volgens Noord-Korea

    by Remco Breuker ...
    Narrated by Remco Breuker ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    Het nieuws dat Noord-Koreaanse militairen aan Russische zijde vochten in Oekraïne kwam in 2024 voor velen als een verrassing. Noord-Korea is toch die in zichzelf gekeerde dictatuur waar op grote schaal mensenrechten worden geschonden? Maar het land blijkt juist ook in het buitenland grote ambities te hebben en zijn greep op de wereld te willen versterken.Noord-Koreakenner Remco Breuker legt uit ... Read more

    $27.33 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Eine kurze Geschichte des Koreakriegs: Wie ein vergessener Krieg die moderne Welt prägte

    by Joachim Ernst ...
    Narrated by Joachim Ernst ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 27 min

    Ein scheinbar lokaler Konflikt entzündet den Kalten Krieg und prägt die globale Machtbalance bis heute. Perfekt für den morgendlichen Arbeitsweg oder fokussierte Lernphasen, zieht dich diese packende historische Analyse direkt an den 38. Breitengrad. Erlebe hautnah, wie aus kolonialen Traumata, militärischem Ehrgeiz und ideologischen Machtkämpfen ein explosives geopolitisches Pulverfass entstand ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Eine kurze Geschichte Seouls: 600 Jahre von der Hauptstadt der Joseon-Dynastie zur Technologiehochburg

    by Finn Preuß ...
    Narrated by Finn Preuß ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 21 min

    Diese packende historische Erzählung zeigt den epischen Weg von der traditionellen Residenz zur Technologiemetropole. Perfekt für das tägliche Pendeln, tauchst du tief in über sechs Jahrhunderte südkoreanischer Stadtentwicklung ein. Lass dich von der dynamischen Atmosphäre mitreißen, während alte Paläste modernen Wolkenkratzern weichen.Ideal für fokussiertes Lernen oder die Vorbereitung auf eine ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Частная жизнь корейской знати. Запреты, положение женщин, быт и идеалы эпохи Чосон

    by Елена Хохлова ...
    Narrated by Наталья Гребёнкина ...
    Series series Страшно интересно

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    Увлекательный путеводитель по жизни Кореи эпохи династии Чосон. Автор предлагает взглянуть на прошлое не через дорамы и исторические сериалы, а через аутентичные исторические источники — главным образом традиционную корейскую живопись. За пять веков существования государства Чосон (1392–1897) создано множество свитков, ширм и альбомов, отражающих быт, костюмы, вкусы и мировоззрение людей той эпохи ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    North Korea

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Patrick McEachern ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. While North Korea is famous for its militarism and nuclear program, South Korea is best known for its economic miracle, familiar to consumers as the producer of Samsung ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Brief History of North Korea, A

    How the World’s Most Secretive State Came to Be

    by Dominic Haynes ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Archie G ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 9 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Behind the headlines, propaganda, and political posturing lies a fascinating story of survival, power, and isolation that has shaped one of the world’s most mysterious nations.Are you confused by the endless news cycles about North Korea but still feel like you don’t really understand how it all began? Frustrated by the lack of clear, accessible ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931-1941

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...
    Series series War in the Far East

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves together a complex and revealing narrative, including facets of the war that are often overlooked in historic narratives. He explores the war in subarctic conditions on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    History of the Korean War: The War That Never Officially Ended

    by Daniel Hargrove ...
    Narrated by Daniel Hargrove ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Step into the trenches of a defining Cold War conflict that divided a nation and reshaped modern military history. Perfect for an immersive commute, this gripping historical account thrusts you onto the frontlines of the twentieth century's most volatile ideological clash. Experience the tense standoff between communism and capitalism that sparked a devastating global proxy war.From the dramatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    North Korea History: From Empire’s End to Nuclear Standoff, a Concise Modern History of the Hermit Kingdom

    by Richard Holm ...
    Narrated by Richard Holm ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    Explore the gripping modern history of a heavily militarized surveillance state forged in the fires of the Cold War. Whether you are commuting or seeking a deep-focus educational escape, this eye-opening geopolitical journey transforms a misunderstood hermit nation into a profoundly human story of survival and trauma.As competing empires collapsed and foreign interventions divided the Korean ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Brief History of North & South Korea 2 in 1, A

    The History, Conflict, and Contrasts Between Two Nations Sharing One Name

    by Dominic Haynes ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Archie G ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.One peninsula. Two nations. A story of division, survival, and astonishing transformation.Confused by the endless headlines about Korea but still feel like you don’t really understand how it all began? Frustrated by the lack of clear, accessible resources that explain both North Korea's secrecy and South Korea's global rise?This concise, engaging 2-in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus