In 1956, Mao Zedong was so angry with Kim Il Sung that he told Moscow he might use the 400,000 Chinese troops still in North Korea to “help Kim Il-sung correct his mistakes,” a thinly veiled proposal ...

In stark contrast, more than 30 years after Kim Il Sung’s death, North Korea still swears eternal loyalty to him. It remains ruled by his bloodline and, in most respects, continues as the ...

Chinese leader Jiang Zemin (term: 1993-2003) was aghast when his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-il told him, “I have to inspect northeastern China.” Jiang said the word “inspect ...

Under Kim Il-sung, North Korea suffered. Under his son Kim Jong-il, the country has suffered even more. Kim Jong-il spent his first three years in office shrewdly and ruthlessly consolidating power.

ROLL OVER, KIM IL SUNG. Published Jan 28, 2001 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM EST. By ...

Description. Historians talked about the political developments in Korea and China after World War II. They spoke about the rise of communist leaders Kim Il-Sung of North Korea and Mao Zedong of ...

At a meeting on April 18, 1975, the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung attempted to convince China's Mao Zedong to back unification of the Korean peninsula by military force, according to ...

A picture of Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung on a remaining section of the Hekou Broken Bridge, which connected China and North Korea before it was bombed by the United States Army during the Korean War.

Hong Kong-based historian Frank Dikötter, in his book How to be a Dictator, describes how Mao Zedong put himself at the apex of the new China, ensuring his portraits were everywhere, and that ...

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...

The enduring influence of Mao Zedong Alone among bloody 20th-century dictators his myth ... It was his personality cult that encouraged an envious Kim Il Sung to push his own to similar ...