"Subsisting on a diet short on food grains and long on lies, North Koreans have been indoctrinated from infancy to follow fanatically the despots Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader lifts North Korea's curtain of self-imposed isolation to offer in-depth portraits of its Orwellian leaders, taking readers inside a society that might seem to be from another planet." "This book is already being hailed as an Asian studies classic, rigorously researched and spellbinding in its storytelling. The chief U.S. envoy was photographed carrying his personal copy as he prepared to negotiate an end to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Now revised and expanded for the paperback, Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader for many years to come will define a Spartan, stubbornly enigmatic society. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: North Korea.

1. To the City of the God-King -- 2. Fighters and Psalmists -- 3. On Long Marches Through Blizzards -- 4. Heaven and Earth the Wise Leader Tamed -- 5. Iron-Willed Brilliant Commander -- 6. With the Leader Who Unfolded Paradise -- 7. When He Hugged Us Still Damp from the Sea -- 8. Flowers of His Great Love Are Blooming -- 9. He Gave Us Water and Sent Us Machines -- 10. Let's Spread the Pollen of Love -- 11. Yura -- 12. Growing Pains -- 13. Take the Lead in World Conjuring -- 14. Calm and Shining Eyes -- 15. From Generation to Generation -- 16. Our Earthly Paradise Free from Oppression -- 17. Two Women -- 18. Dazzling Ray of Guidance -- 19. A Story to Tell to the Nations -- 20. Wherever You Go in My Homeland -- 21. If Your Brain Is Properly Oiled -- 22. Logging In and Logging Out -- 23. Do You Remember That Time? -- 24. Pickled Plum in a Lunch Box -- 25. I Die, You Die -- 26. Yen for the Motherland -- 27. Winds of Temptation May Blow -- 28. Sea of Fire -- 29. Without You There Is No Country -- 30. We Will Become Bullets and Bombs -- 31. Neither Land nor People at Peace -- 32. In a Ruined Country -- 33. Even the Traitors Who Live in Luxury -- 34. Though Alive, Worse Than Gutter Dogs -- 35. Sun of the Twenty-First Century -- 36. Fear and Loathing -- 37. Sing of Our Leader's Favors for Thousands of Years -- Epilogue: Pyongyang, October 2005.