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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Wonsan is a paradise in North Korea. It is where the country’s elite spend their summers. It is also where Kim Jong Un spent his childhood summers.
#2 While the North Korean people were starving and suffering from floods in the 1980s, the Kim regime was shipping relief aid to South Korea from Wonsan. In the 1990s, while North Korean children were eating seeds for nourishment, Kim Jong Un was enjoying sushi and watching action movies.
#3 Wonsan was an extremely important place for Kim Jong Un. It was there that he built a huge amusement park, as well as missile launching sites. He watched as his munitions chiefs used new 300mm guns to turn an island just offshore to dust.
#4 The Kim family’s claim on the leadership of North Korea has its origins in the 1930s, when Kim Il Sung was making a name for himself as an anti-Japanese guerilla fighter. In 1942, when Korea was liberated from Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States decided to divide the peninsula between them.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	17 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822511910
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Wonsan is a paradise in North Korea. It is where the country’s elite spend their summers. It is also where Kim Jong Un spent his childhood summers.

#2

While the North Korean people were starving and suffering from floods in the 1980s, the Kim regime was shipping relief aid to South Korea from Wonsan. In the 1990s, while North Korean children were eating seeds for nourishment, Kim Jong Un was enjoying sushi and watching action movies.

#3

Wonsan was an extremely important place for Kim Jong Un. It was there that he built a huge amusement park, as well as missile launching sites. He watched as his munitions chiefs used new 300mm guns to turn an island just offshore to dust.

#4

The Kim family’s claim on the leadership of North Korea has its origins in the 1930s, when Kim Il Sung was making a name for himself as an anti-Japanese guerilla fighter. In 1942, when Korea was liberated from Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States decided to divide the peninsula between them.

#5

The Soviet Union installed Kim Il Sung as the leader of North Korea in 1945. He wasn’t the ideal candidate, as the Soviets were suspicious of his ties to the Japanese, but he had impressed his Soviet benefactors enough to earn himself a role in the new North Korean regime.

#6

Kim Il Sung was a flop. He was elected in 1948, and within a year, he had started a personality cult so pervasive it made Stalin look like an amateur. He established a Korean People’s Army, led by fellow veterans of the anti-Japanese struggle, and tried to take control of South Korea.

#7

After the war, North Korea blamed the American-backed South for the conflict, and declared itself the victor. Kim Il Sung cemented his leadership by overseeing a massive rebuilding program funded by North Korea’s allies.

#8

Kim Il Sung was beginning to think about his legacy, and making sure that the dictatorship he had established would endure. He wanted to keep it in the family, so he decided on his son as his successor.

#9

In 1980, Kim Jong Il was elevated to high positions in the three main organs of the Workers’ Party, the Politburo Presidium, the Central Military Commission, and the party secretariat. He took on more responsibility within the Workers’ Party and accompanied his father on his on-the-spot guidance tours around the country.

#10

Kim Jong Il had several wives and consorts over the course of his life, and he had children with each one. He married a actress named Song Hye Rim in 1966, and they had a son in 1971. Kim Jong Un was born in 1984.

#11

On July 8, 1994, Kim Il Sung died after suffering a massive heart attack. His death was kept secret for 34 hours while the regime made the final arrangements to confirm the succession. The country was hit by a devastating famine during the following three years, which loosened the regime’s grip on the populace.

#12

After the famine in North Korea, Kim Jong Il began focusing on the military. He had promoted a military first policy and elevated the military to pole position within the regime’s hierarchy. The Workers’ Party of Korea adopted the slogan The Military Is the Party, the People, and the Nation.

#13

Kim Jong Nam’s mother had been living in Moscow more or less continuously since 1974, when Kim Jong Il had taken up with his next wife. When she did return to Pyongyang, she was often temperamental, suffering from migraines or volatile episodes that cast a black mood over the entire house.

#14

When Kim Jong Un was six years old, he and his older brother were waiting for their father to come out of a meeting with some officials, including their uncle Jang Song Thaek. When their father entered the room, they stood to attention like soldiers and saluted him, serious expressions on their chubby faces.

#15

Kim Jong Un had a lonely childhood, and he and Fujimoto became friends. Fujimoto spent a lot of time with the children, and he would bring them food from Japan. This was a contradiction in the regime, as North Korea was built on a hatred of Japan.

#16

While Korea was under Japanese colonial rule, Kim Il Sung’s anti-imperialist credentials helped him gain support among the Korean population. After World War II, North Korea kept the hatred burning strong against Japan.

#17

After the war, their father got in trouble with the police. He was rumored to be operating an illegal boat connecting Osaka and Jeju, and was reportedly ordered to be deported. The family joined the tide of ethnic Koreans who moved to North Korea from Japan in the 1950s.

#18

Kim Jong Il eventually married Ko Yong Hui, a dancer in the Mansudae Art Troupe, and the two had two sons. Kim Jong Un developed a fascination with Japan after his mother took him and his brother there in 1991.

#19

While the North Korean regime spewed forth anti-Japanese hate, Ko Yong Hui went shopping in Ginza, Tokyo’s upmarket district, and got her hair done by people who were known at home as imperialist aggressors. She took the boys to Tokyo Disneyland, where they were drawn to a 3-D attraction with a moving chair.

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