num_pages: 443
description: This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death will mean for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.
language: English
title: Kim Il Sung
titlecomplete: Kim Il Sung
genres: Biography, History, Politics
ratings_count: 38
series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
publisher: Columbia University Press