At some levels, all public monuments are statements of power. In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs erected pyramids and obelisks as permanent symbols of their immense power and eternal influence. In communist regimes, colossal statues of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Kim Il Sung are towering reminders of th...
Yang was a 21-year old volunteer in the air force when he was deployed to the island of Silmido off the western coast of South Korea in 1970. Today, the island is uninhabited. It is accessible by foot for several hours a day, when the tide drops opening up a sandbar to a nearby ...
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金正恩率党政军高层出席。场面壮观。 In April 15, 2012, North Korea holds grandly reviews troops the ceremony, commemorates the Kim Il Sung birthday 100th anniversary.Jin Zhengen leads the government and army high-level attendance.Scene magnificent sight.[translate]...
Ho Chi Minh: Once a covert agent for Moscow, Ho Chi Minh is credited with spreading communism to Vietnam. A devoted follower of Stalin, he is probably best known for his guerilla warfare tactics. Kim Il-sung: Grandfather of North Korea's current leader, Kim Jong-un, Kim Il-sung worked...
Flying over East Asia in January 2014, astronauts took this night image of the Korean peninsula. Dark North Korea is difficult to detect, between China and South Korea. Source: NASA Kim agrees to on-camera interviews at his own risk. He evades specific questions about his old life in the ...
Stalin’s reign inspired copycat dictators such as Kim Il Sung in North Korea and Pol Pot in Cambodia, who both have astonishingly high death tolls of their own. The world continues to suffer from the impact of Stalin, who should the extent to which one leaders unquenchable desire for power...
To solve the impasse, the US basically set up anti-communist Syngman Rhee as the President of the Republic of Korea with United Nations sanctioned elections in August. In September, the Soviet Union set up former Soviet Red Army Major Kim Il-sung as the Premier of the Democrat...
But Mao was also not like Kim Il-Sung in North Korea; sticking with the old model without regard for a changing world. There was a time when North Korea was doing well: it was richer than South Korea in the 1960s and also had a brief success in the wider world with a rather good...
In September, the Soviet Union set up former Soviet Red Army Major Kim Il-sung as the Premier of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (in the Stalinist, "cult-of-personality" model). Each of the two governments claimed sovereignty over the whole of the Korean Peninsula...