The Kingdom of Smoke

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue - The Boy Who Would Be God
2. Chapter One - Made in Manchuria
3. Chapter Two - The Birth of Kim Il-sung: A Legend in Reverse
4. Chapter Three - State of Worship
5. Chapter Four - The Wall of Lies
6. Chapter Five - The Dear Leader Is Watching
7. Chapter Six - Kim Jong-un: The Baby-Faced Butcher
8. Chapter Seven - Apocalypse Theater
9. Chapter Eight - The Interview Incident
10. Chapter Nine - The Mirror Test

Excerpt

PROLOGUE - THE BOY WHO WOULD BE GOD THERE’S A PHOTO. Not the famous ones—not the missile launches or the death stare across the DMZ. No, this one’s different. It’s just a pudgy kid in a basketball jersey. Nike sneakers. Backpack slung over one shoulder. Hunched like a bored teenager, eating Swiss cheese and doodling nuclear warheads in his notebook. This is Kim Jong-un. Age thirteen. Not Supreme Leader. Not the Butcher of Pyongyang. Just a lonely boy in a foreign land, homesick and simmering. He’ll go back, one day. And when he does, he’ll inherit something older than himself: A throne carved from delusion, fear, and blood. A nation so sealed off from reality it makes The Truman Show look...