“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure in all of Korea’s history.” If this Lord of Darkness has any competition at all, it comes from his son ...
How did Christianity shape North Korea? A new 745-page book argues the regime built by Kim Il Sung resembles a national ...
P eople have been predicting the collapse of North Korea’s communist dictatorship since 1948, when Kim Il Sung seized p ...
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[Book review] When North Korea led the Third World

Benjamin Young’s “Guns, Guerillas and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World” examines the active role that North Korea played in the Third World in the later half of the 20th century ...
Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult," Jonathan Cheng tells the history of North Korea through the Kim Dynasty and how it has so successfully intertwined politics and ...
North Korea is no place for evangelical Christians today but peel back decades and you’ll find Christianity at the heart of the Kim family’s rise to power. Journalist Jonathan Cheng has spent 15 years ...