North Korea to Bring Moon to DPRK (The Onion)
Friday, March 13th, 2009Kim Jong Il Announces Plan To Bring Moon To North Korea
Archive for the 'Kim Il-sung' Category
French Doctors on Treating Kim Jong-il Since the 1990s; Confirms Stroke
Thursday, December 11th, 2008French doctors have been treating North Korean elite – to include Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il – since the early 1990s. Rumors of European physicians treating the Kim Jong-il have been around for years, but the bizarre details were bound to surface sooner or later; here are a few (h/t PS) [original text in French, [...]
The Great Leaders – An Update and Correction
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Update: Dr. Petrov notes in comments, per input from Ruediger Frank on the Korean Studies Mailing List, that there are at least two other common forms of address for Kim Jong-il, which have been added as the last two rows of the table below.
Original post: Today while (finally) reading Andrei Lankov’s, “North of the [...]
Kim Il-sung’s 96th Birthday
Monday, April 14th, 2008What would have been Kim Il-sung’s (김일성) 96th birthday, had he not died on 8 July 1994, is today (in Korea), 15 April. The “Great Leader” was born in Mangyondae in what is now North Korea, on the day the Titanic sank.
Footage of Kim Il-sung
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Jack of DPRK Forum points to some footage of Kim Il-sung, including some vintage stuff from 1956. Note that what would be Kim Il-sung’s 96th birthday is coming up on 15 April (same day the Titanic sank).
Kim Jong-il Employing Lessons from the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Though the mechanics are obviously different than the Sino-Soviet Dispute, the outcome is similar enough to be compared; North Korea is in the middle of the re-emerging Chinese great power and the world’s only superpower (for a detailed explanation this, see Suh Dae-sook’s book). Bush’s change from a hard-line to La-La Land policy on [...]
