Kim Il Sung The First Korean Monarch
Kim Il Sung: The First Korean Monarch Everyone might have had a dream once about becoming a president of his or her country, a leader of a society, or a powerful person in the world when he or she was a child. ... Therefore, Kim Il Sung, the best or the worst leader in Korea, was well prepared to be the most successful and notorious monarch. As Machiavelli mentioned about the requirements of prince in his book The Prince, Kim Il Sung got the power of lion that mighty military strength, the wisdom of fox, and the party line which was persuasive to his poor people. According to the history of Kim Il Sung on web sites, he was born in just like any other ordinary babies. ... ¡°Kim Il Sung was the pseudonym for Kim Song Ju. ... He and his family immigrated to Manchuria in the 1920s like many Korean families did at the time¡± (¡°Who Was Kim Il Sung? ... His family was a patriotic and revolutionary one, and fought for many generations from the beginning of the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean people for the independence of the country. When Il Sung was a child, he attended a Chinese school in Manchuria. At the age of fifteen, Kim was arrested and imprisoned for a year by the Chinese authorities for having been a founding member of a Communist Youth League. ¡°After his release from jail in 1930, Kim founded the Korean Revolutionary Army, a guerrilla group that fought against the Japanese military. In 1931, Kim left for the hills of eastern Manchuria to join a Chinese Communist guerrilla group fighting the Japanese military in Manchuria¡± (¡°Korea University¡±). ... Therefore, external conflict was brought in by the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union who wanted to reconstruct the Korean society. With the implementation of the communist regime of Soviet Russia by Kim Il Sung, and the democratic one of the United States by Lee, Syngman who was the first president of South Korea, two opposing governments eventually came to power, and the opposite and conflicting ideologies led to civil war. The leader of The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, took his name from a legendary Korean guerilla who, like himself, had fought the Japanese. ¡° After defeat in Manchuria by the Japanese, Kim joined the Soviet army. In the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 - February 1943), Kim was a captain who served with honor for the Soviets¡± (Korea University¡±). ... ¡¯ On October 15, the North Korean Bureau was instituted and Kim became the first Secretary of the 4,530member group. ... Kim Il Sung supported the callous removal of nationalists from North Korea for the reason that they opposed the system and if he were to be in an election, the nationalists may ruin his chance to govern Korea. ... With the assistance of Major General Romanenko, Kim Il-sung fortified his reputation with the Soviets. In February 1946, the North Korean Provisional Peoples Committee replaced the Five Provinces Administration Bureau and became the central government of North Korea: Kim Il-sung became the chairman. By August 1946, the group had merged with the New Peoples Party, renamed themselves The North Korean Workers Party, and within a year their affiliates totaled more than half a million.