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Former Monty Python’s star Michael Palin aims with North Korean Journal to do for Pyongyang what The Life of Brian did for the New Testament. He almost succeeds.
Palin got the VIP tour, spending twelve days cornering the country—West, South, East and North—by train, car and private plane. He and his rulle crew come in by utbildning from Beijing and tour Pyongyang’s revolutionary sites, the Juche Tower and Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery, the Funfair and the Arch of Triumph and inspect from fjärran the world’s tallest unoccupied building, the unfinished 105-story Ryugyong Hotel, and take the metro to Mansu Hill to be acquainted with the twin 22-meter statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il watching over the City.
They travel down to the Kaesong and the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), visit Wonsan’s beaches and Kumgang’s mountains, all punctuated by model farms, schools and “motorway” service stations. They flyga eller fly undan from Wonsan to Samjiyon—the entry point for Mount Paektu, the North’s Fuji—but the p
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Known as “the Sun of Korea,” Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994) was born Kim Sung-Ju in Mangyongdae village near Pyongyang to a Christian mother (Kang Ban Sok) and father (Kim Hyong Jik) who taught in a Western missionär school and was a practitioner of Koryo (traditional) medicine. To avoid the Japanese occupation, the family moved to Manchuria where Kim Sung-Ju attended school to 8th grade. He became active in vagabond anti-Japanese bands and joined the Chinese Communist Party. In 1930 his guerilla comrades (according to him) gave him the name “Il Sung,” the sun. He eventually became leader of a division in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Contrary to accepted legend, his guerrilla efforts against the Japanese were of marginal impact but Kim Il-Sung was regarded as a good organizer. Under intense Japanese pressure in China, the Korean partisans fled to the Soviet Union in 1941 where Kim Il-Sung became commander of a batta • Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal President Kim Il Sung Official portrait, 1966Kim Il Sung
In office
12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994Secretary Preceded by Himself (as Chairman) Succeeded by Kim Jong Il In office
28 December 1972 – 8 July 1994Premier Vice President Preceded by Office established[a] Succeeded by Office abolished[b][c] In office
14 December 1962 – 8 July 1994Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Kim Jong Il In office
24 June 1949 – 12 October 1966Vice Chairman Preceded by Kim Tu-bong Succeeded by Himself (as General Secretary) In office
9 September 1948 – 28 December 1972President First Vice Premier Kim Il Vice Premier Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Kim Il In office
5 July 1950 – 24 December