Paperback edition of this unique and timely account of life in North Korea from BBC journalist John Sweeney, who posed as a university professor to gain unprecedented access to the world's most secret state. The accompanying "Panorama" TV programme received a record 5.4m viewers.

John Sweeney is a writer and journalist who, when working for the BBC, has challenged dictators, despots, cult leaders, con artists and crooked businessmen for many years. Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in one hundred countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. The author of fifteen books including the Sunday Times best- seller Killer in the Kremlin, he reports on the war in Ukraine from his twitter handle @johnsweeneyroar