Kim Il Sung: North Korean Leader

Dae-Sook Suh

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Young Kim and the United Army

1. Background

2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army

3. Guerrilla Accomplishments

Part II: Consolidation of Political Power

4. The Soviet Occupation of North Korea

5. The Workers' Party of Korea

6. The Republic and the Army

Part III: Challenges to Kim's Leadership

7. The Korean War and Kim's Rivals

8. After the War

Part IV: Search for Korean Identity

9. Mobilization Campaigns

10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung

Part V: Problems in Kim's Independence

11. The Rise of the Military

12. The South Korean Revolution

13. Disintegration of the Partisan Group

Part VI: North Korea Under Kim

14. South Korea and the Third World

15. The Shift from Party to State

16. Semiretirement in the New Era

Part VII: Church'e and the Republic

17. On Kim's Political Thought

18. The Republic by Kim

Appendix 1. Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics

Appendix 2. Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics

Appendix 3. Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea

Appendix 4: Chronology of Kim Il Sung

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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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