On a May evening in 1941, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Suk made love in a tent in the Soviet Far East. Newlyweds, they gave themselves to each other, unaware of what the future would bring—their intimacy a result of their mutual struggle against the Japanese. The two revolutionaries shared a rare marital bond: they had fought side-by-side at moments when death seemed certain.
This battle-hardened intimacy led to the birth of Kim Jong Il on February 16, 1942. Somewhere near dawn, the cries of that newborn baby pierced the cold morning air of a guerilla camp near the Soviet border with Manchuria.
On a May evening in 1941, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Suk made love in a tent in the Soviet Far East. Newlyweds, they gave themselves to each other, unaware of what the future would bring—their intimacy a result of their mutual struggle against the Japanese. The two revolutionaries shared a rare marital bond: they had fought side-by-side at moments when death seemed certain.
This battle-hardened intimacy led to the birth of Kim Jong Il on February 16, 1942. Somewhere near dawn, the cries of that newborn baby pierced the cold morning air of a guerilla camp near the Soviet border with Manchuria.
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