Mekong Review – November 2024-January 2025 – and my review of Thae Yong-ho’s new memoir…

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Out now is the November 2024-January 2025 issue and, among all the other good stuff (check out the latest issue’s contents here), is my review of North Korean senior defector Thae Yong-ho’s (who slipped away from the DPRK’s London embassy in 2016 to Seoul) new memoir Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider’s Account of Life Among North Korea’s Political Elite (Columbia University Press) – paywalled, but subscribers can read here….