Description
This book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death means for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.
About the Author
Dae-Sook Suh is the director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.
Reviews
Necessary background for our understadning of this mystic leader and the regime that he built...a major conribution to scholarship and essential reading for anyuone intersted in contemporary Korea. Journal of Asian Studies Dae-Sook Suh... has to be commended for a thoroughly-researched study of the first North Korean president Il Sum King. Suh has produced a first rate historical study of the North Korean leader, his life and his politics. Korean Quarterly
Book Information
ISBN 9780231065733
Author Dae-Sook Suh
Format Paperback
Page Count 443
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press