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100 1  Hope, Bradley,|eauthor. 
245 14 The rebel and the kingdom :|bthe true story of the secret 
       mission to overthrow the North Korean regime /|cBradley 
       Hope. 
246 3  True story of the secret mission to overthrow the North 
       Korean regime 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown, an imprint of Random House,|c2022 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xvi, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustations (cheifly color), maps, portraits, 
       photographs;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tPrologue: The break-in --|tA ready-made life --|tThe 
       present is no different --|tAcross the Tumen River --
       |tShenyang six --|tBull in a china shop --|tThe pegasus 
       project --|tHorreya --|tAbove ground, below ground --
       |tBlueprints --|tPruning the family tree --|tFace-to-face 
       --|tThe Italian job --|tI'll be gone a while --|tAnatomy 
       of a fake kidnapping --|tLong live the great successor --
       |tSomebody please call the FBI --|tJailhouse kimchi --|tOn
       the run --|tEpilogue: The price. 
520    "A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-
       fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North 
       Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught 
       operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world.
       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 so pressing that he was 
       ready to devote his life to it. What began as a trip down 
       the safe and well-worn path of organizing soon morphed 
       into something more dangerous. 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 third-generation
       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 Marine veteran 
       Christopher Ahn, helped ferry 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 fugitives. In the tradition of Jon 
       Krakauer's Into the Wild, The Rebel and the Kingdom is an 
       exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the 
       status quo-to instead live boldly by his principles. 
       Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Bradley Hope-
       who broke numerous details of Hong's operations in The 
       Wall Street Journal-now reveals the full contours of this 
       remarkable story of idealism and insanity, hubris and 
       heroism, all set within the secret battle for the future 
       of the world's most mysterious and unsettling nation."--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Hong, Adrian. 
650  0 Human rights|zKorea (North) 
650  0 Human rights workers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Asian American political activists|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft