Kim Il Sung : : The North Korean Leader / / Dae-Sook Suh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Suh, Dae-Sook,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1988]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 1988
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

A biography of Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea for over 40 years, that attempts to separate fact from fiction and exaggeration, and to present a critical analysis of his life and politics.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface to the Paperback Edition
• Preface
• Part I: Young Kim and the United Army
• 1. Background
• 2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
• 3. Guerrilla Accomplishments
• Part II: Consolidation of Political Power
• 4. The Soviet Occupation of North Korea
• 5. The Workers' Party of Korea
• 6. The Republic and the Army
• Part III. Challenges to Kim's Leadership
• 7. The Korean War and Kim's Rivals
• 8. After the War
• Part IV. Search for Korean Identity
• 9. Mobilization Campaigns
• 10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung
• Part V. Problems in Kim's Independence
• 11. The Rise of the Military
• 12. The South Korean Revolution
• 13. Disintegration of the Partisan Group
• Part VI. North Korea under Kim
• 14. South Korea and the Third World
• 15. The Shift from Party to State
• 16. Semiretirement in the New Era
• Part VII. Chuch'e and the Republic
• 17. On Kim's Political Thought
• 18. The Republic by Kim
• Appendix 1. Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics
• Appendix 2. Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics
• Appendix 3. Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea
• Appendix 4. Chronology of Kim II Sung
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
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