Won Tai Sohn

Kim Il Sung and Korea's Struggle

An Unconventional Firsthand History

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1910, Japan took control over Korea by military and political force. Then, in 1945, Korea was arbitrarily divided by the Soviet Union and the United States into North and South Korea. The Soviets impeded all United Nations efforts to hold elections and reunite the country under one government. Korea has been struggling for independence and reunification ever since. In this memoir, Won Tai Sohn recollects the unusually harsh Japanese treatment of Korean people in Korea, Manchuria, China and Japan, and remembers his close relationship with North Korean president Kim Il Sung from their boyhood to President Kim's sudden death in 1994. According to Dr. Sohn, President Kim devoted his entire life to the liberation of Korea, starting with fighting against the Japanese stationed in North Korea and China. He became the first premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea when it was established in 1948, and led his nation in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953. In 1993, President Kim's nuclear program and defense policy became a great concern for the United States when intelligence analysis estimated that North Korea was less than two years away from being able to strike South Korea and Japan with nuclear missiles. President Kim died two months after talks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter about ending North Korea's nuclear program.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780786415892
• ISBN-10: 0786415894
• Artikelnr.: 21199472

Autorenporträt

The late Won Tai Sohn, M.D., was a physician and professor and lived in Omaha, Nebraska.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword by In Kwan Hwang     
Foreword by G. Cameron Hurst III     
Preface (by Won Tai Sohn)     
Introduction by Samuel S. Song     
Part I : My First Relationship with President Kim Il Sung
1. My Childhood     
2. My Father, the Reverend Sohn Jong Do     
3. Jilin, China     
4. The Association of Korean Children in Jilin     
5. My Thoughts on the Soul of the Nation     
6. An Unfading Picture in My Mind     
7. A Campaign to Get Ahn Chang Ho Released from Detention     
Part II : Hearing the Legendary Tales of General Kim Il Sung
8. The Crossroads of Our Lives     
9. An Article Carried in the Shanghai Dagongbao     
10. In the Nagasaki Prison     
11. Love Overcomes My Depression     
12. To Testify to the Truth of History     
13. The Road to Pyongyang     
Part III : My Reunion with President Kim Il Sung
14. "Where Have You Been Only to Come Now?"     
15. With the Mind of My Own Brother     
16. A "White House" on the Mountain     
17. For the Benefit of the People     
18. Applying the Truth of Independence to Practice     
19. Genuine Patriotism     
20. A Noble and Clean Country     
21. Unchanged Friendship     
22. On the River Taedong     
Part IV : President Kim Il Sung Is Immortal
23. Overcome with Shock by Unexpected News     
24. My 80th Birthday Celebrated in Pyongyang     
25. Leader Kim Jong Il     
26. For Eternal Friendship     
27. My Brother, Won Yil, Is Memorialized     
Index