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Traces the life of Kim, who has ruled North Korea for four decades, and discusses his accomplishments and foreign policy.
In this text, Andrei Lankov traces the formation of the North Korean state and the early years of Kim Il Song's rule, when the future Great Leader and his entourage were nurturing their power base.
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Kim Il Sung was a Korean politician who led the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994. He served as the Chairman and General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. Kim Il Sung's legendary career began in his youth, when he joined a group of guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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In 1910, Japan took control over Korea by military and political force. Then, in 1945, Korea was arbitrarily divided by the Soviet Union and the United States into North and South Korea. The Soviets impeded all United Nations efforts to hold elections and reunite the country under one government. Korea has been struggling for independence and reunification ever since. In this memoir, Won Tai Sohn recollects the unusually harsh Japanese treatment of Korean people in Korea, Manchuria, China and Japan, and remembers his close relationship with North Korean president Kim Il Sung from their boyhood to President Kim's sudden death in 1994. According to Dr. Sohn, President Kim devoted his entire li...