Despotism's furthest shore.(Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty)(Book Review)

From: National Review | Date: November 29, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty, by Bradley K. Martin (Thomas Dunne, 880 pp., $29.95)

WHEN the North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung died in 1994 and his son Kim Jong Il took over leadership of the country, I thought, in common with most observers, that the Communist regime was done for. Kim Sr., though he had originally been installed by Stalin as a tool of Soviet policy, had had a genuine background as a guerrilla fighter against the Japanese in Manchuria and Korea before and during WWII. Odious as was the system he created from 1945 ...

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