THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL PEOPLE (True Crime) by Castleden Rodney

Author:Castleden, Rodney [Castleden, Rodney]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Kim Il Sung

(1912–1994)

Kim Song Ju was born in Mangyongdae near Pyongyang in North Korea on 15 April, 1912. It is thought his family were middle class. He was the eldest of three sons. The younger brother died young, but the youngest served with Kim until the 1970s. In 1919 Korean intellectuals called for independence from Japan, triggering protests against Japan right across Korea. This brought a harsh response from the Japanese. Kim’s family, who were actively opposed to the Japanese, moved away from Korea to Manchuria, where Kim was able to attend a Chinese school. In 1923 Kim returned to Pyongyang for two years’ schooling, but was then taken back to Manchuria to continue his education.

Kim’s father died aged only 32 in 1926. Three years later, while attending Yuwen Middle School in Manchuria, Kim was sent to prison for being a member of a subversive student group led by the South Manchurian Communist Youth Association. Released the following May, he joined the Anti-Japanese United Army; in 1932, when his mother died, he became the unit leader. At around this time Korean military leaders became involved in the anti-Japanese resistance. More than 200,000 Koreans and Chinese joined guerilla groups, but the Japanese mounted a bloody counter-insurgency campaign and that number was greatly reduced.

Kim emerged now as an efficient resistance leader, with about 300 men under his command. The Japanese found him sufficiently dangerous to form a special unit to track him down. It was at this time that Kim adopted his new name, Kim Il Sung.

In 1937, when the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Japan cracked down hard on dissidents in Korea. Koreans were now required to take Japanese names and to speak Japanese. Kim’s wife, Kim Hye Sun, was captured by the Japanese on 6 April, 1940 and later killed. By 1941, Kim himself was the only surviving leader of the Anti-Japanese United Army still operating in Manchuria. He decided to flee with 120 of his men across the border into Siberia, where they were forced to join a Soviet guerilla group and assigned to intelligence-gathering in Manchuria. To this end, Kim was given training in espionage, radio communication and sabotage. He had no choice but to stay with the Soviets until the end of the war.

In 1942, Kim’s son Kim Jong Il was born to his second wife, Kim Chong Suk, at Khabarovsk. The personality cult that was later elaborately built up around Kim and his son would have it that Kim Jong Il was born in a log cabin on North Korea’s highest and most sacred mountain, Paektusan, on the border of North Korea and Manchuria. To add to the mythic nature of this birth, it would later be said that it was accompanied by a double rainbow, and a bright star in the sky, and a swallow descending from Heaven. None of this is true. Kim Jong Il was born in an army camp in the Siberian town of Khabarovsk.

On 14 August 1945 Japan surrendered, bringing both the Second World War and the Second Sino-Japanese War to a dramatic end.

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