‘Accidental Tyrant’ Review: The Unlikely Rise of Kim Il Sung
Selected by the Soviets to run what was supposed to be a minor puppet regime, Kim Il Sung created his own cult of personality ...
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INTERVIEW/ Ex-interpreter for Kim Il Sung: North Korea will likely continue as East Asia’s major troublemaker
Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung ... capability in East Asia and further ...
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International community doubted North Korea’s future after founder Kim Il-sung's death: dossier
The death of Kim Il-sung on July 8, 1994, sent the international diplomatic community scrambling to predict the future of the reclusive state, as well as who would be the next in line to rule ...
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Kim Jong-un: What's it like having the same name as a North Korean leader?
For most people, the names Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung can mean only three men ... The top of Myanmar's Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda, south-east of Mandalay, collapsed following an earthquake.
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‘Goofy’: declassified 1994 files show how world powers doubted North Korea’s Kim Jong-il
Newly declassified diplomatic files from Seoul have revealed that major world powers were deeply concerned about North Korean leader Kim Il-sung’s succession plan after his sudden death in 1994 ...