Jang Jin-sung (Korean: 장진성; born c. 1970–1971) is the pseudonym [2] of a North Korean poet and government official who defected to South Korea. He had worked as a psychological warfare officer within the United Front Department of the Korean Workers' Party.

2022年2月9日 · A South Korean court has sentenced prominent North Korean defector and author Jang Jin-sung to six months in prison, after finding him guilty of a sexual crime against a former female coworker, NK News has confirmed.

2024年4月5日 · The South Korean Supreme Court last month upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of the author, Jang Jin-sung. Mr. Jang sued his accuser, Sung Sel-hyang, and the TV channel MBC in 2021, after...

2021年2月17日 · Jang Jin-sung, the author of “Dear Leader,” has been accused of sexual assault by two women, including a fellow defector from North Korea. He has threatened to sue for defamation.

2015年1月27日 · An astonishing exposé told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung’s escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is an “impossibly dramatic story…one of the best depictions yet of North Korea’s nightmare” (Publishers Weekly).

2014年5月27日 · As a state-appointed poet laureate, Jang Jin Sung reached the pinnacle of elite life in North Korea. He spent his days writing epic poems for dictator Kim Jong Il—and overseeing inter-Korean ...

2014年7月9日 · Dressed casually in purple shirt and light khaki pants, Jang, 43, came across as your average, good-natured, 40-something Korean man who likes to ask questions and often chuckles. This image...

2012年7月2日 · But these days Jang Jin-sung says he prefers to tell the truth about North Korea. The former state poet, who defected to South Korea in 2004, now writes to tell the world about what he calls the brutality of everyday life in the North.

His 2014 memoir Dear Leader is an astonishing account of his life in North Korea and his subsequent and dramatic escape to South Korea. We talked at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

2017年10月12日 · Jang Jin-sung, who now lives in South Korea, recalls how after meeting the Dear Leader he realised that he was not the God most North Koreans believed him to be