Kim IL Sung: The North Korean Leader (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

Traces the life of Kim, who has ruled North Korea for four decades, and discusses his accomplishments and foreign policy. [Kim Il Sung] Frontmatter 1 [Kim Il Sung] Contents 7 [Kim Il Sung] Illustrations 9 [Kim Il Sung] Preface to the Paperback Edition 11 [Kim Il Sung] Preface 17 [Kim Il Sung] 1. Background 27 [Kim Il Sung] 2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army 41 [Kim Il Sung] 3. Guerrilla Accomplishments 56 [Kim Il Sung] 4. The Soviet Occupation of North Korea 81 [Kim Il Sung] 5. The Workers’ Party of Korea 100 [Kim Il Sung] 6. The Republic and the Army 121 [Kim Il Sung] 7. The Korean War and Kim’s Rivals 133 [Kim Il Sung] 8. After the War 163 [Kim Il Sung] 9. Mobilization Campaigns 185 [Kim Il Sung] 10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung 202 [Kim Il Sung] 11. The Rise of the Military 235 [Kim Il Sung] 12. The South Korean Revolution 250 [Kim Il Sung] 13. Disintegration of the Partisan Group 264 [Kim Il Sung] 14. South Korea and the Third World 275 [Kim Il Sung] 15. The Shift from Party to State 295 [Kim Il Sung] 16. Semiretirement in the New Era 313 [Kim Il Sung] 17. On Kim’s Political Thought 325 [Kim Il Sung] 18. The Republic by Kim 340 [Kim Il Sung] Appendix 1. Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics 351 [Kim Il Sung] Appendix 2. Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics 355 [Kim Il Sung] Appendix 3. Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea 356 [Kim Il Sung] Appendix 4. Chronology of Kim II Sung 359 [Kim Il Sung] Notes 365 [Kim Il Sung] The East Asian Institute of Columbia University 427

This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death will mean for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.

Columbia University Press

This book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death means for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.