His 2012 book Escape from Camp 14 is an official biography of North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk.
Harden worked for 28 years for The Washington Post as a correspondent in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, as well as in New York and Seattle.
[9] Harden's fourth book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot was released in March 2015.
It is a biography of Air Force Major Donald Nichols, an intelligence officer who operated for 11 years in Korea before, during and after the Korean War.
In 2021, Harden published Murder at the Mission, which explores the truth behind the popular myths of the Whitman massacre.