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Opinion Book review: How Kim Il Sung ‘accidentally’ became North Korea’s brutal tyrantIn an impressive new book, Fyodor Tertitskiy draws on diverse sources to tell the untold story of the elusive dictator  The world of North Korean studies is so heavily focused on issues like nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Un’s ruthless leadership that it can be easy to forget where it all started. The DPRK is a unicorn in the modern age — the last of the communist bloc states operating as if the Cold War never ended. Of course, North Korea is a secretive, isolated country because the Kim family wants to keep it that way. Yet the Kims were not inherently destined to become the masters of the country, a new book argues. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |
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