Book review: How Kim Il Sung ‘accidentally’ became North Korea’s brutal tyrant

Book review: How Kim Il Sung ‘accidentally’ became North Korea’s brutal tyrant

The world of North Korean studies is so heavily focused on issues like nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Un’s ruthless leadership that it can be easy to forget where it all started. The DPRK is a unicorn in the modern age — the last of the communist bloc states operating as if the Cold War […]