Kim Il Sung: North Korean Leader

Dae-Sook Suh

"Necessary background for our understadning of this mystic leader and the regime that he built...a major conribution to scholarship and essential reading for anyuone intersted in contemporary Korea." — Journal of Asian Studies

"Dae-Sook Suh . . . has to be commended for a thoroughly-researched study of the first North Korean president Il Sum King. Suh has produced a first rate historical study of the North Korean leader, his life and his politics." — Korean Quarterly

Related Subjects

• Asian History

Series

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

About the Author

Dae-Sook Suh is the Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.

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