Asia's most dangerous flashpoint - North Korea. Mission imposssible for three people - a Sartre-reading yakuza, a glamorous American activist and a shadowy agent of the regime. Martin Gower takes you on a dizzying ride through the seething jungles of Mindanao, down the neon-splattered back-alleys of Tokyo, across the vast baking emptiness of Mongolia, and into the innermost chambers of the Dear Leader's personal pleasure dome.