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    Kim Il Sung

    Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994

    In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

    Eternal President

    Kim Il Sung

    Official portrait, 1966

    In office
    12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994
    Secretary
    Preceded byHimself (as Chairman)
    Succeeded byKim Jong Il
    In office
    28 December 1972 – 8 July 1994
    Premier
    Vice President
    Preceded byOffice established[a]
    Succeeded byOffice abolished[b][c]
    In office
    14 December 1962 – 8 July 1994
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byKim Jong Il
    In office
    24 June 1949 – 12 October 1966
    Vice Chairman
    Preceded byKim Tu-bong
    Succeeded byHimself (as General Secretary)
    In office
    9 September 1948 – 28 December 1972
    President
    First Vice PremierKim Il
    Vice Premier
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byKim Il
    In office
    5 July 1950 – 24 December

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    “We do not want to overthrow him”: Beijing, Moscow, and Kim Il Sung, 1956

    A new tranche of Soviet documents on the attempted removal of North Korea’s founding leader

    With the growing threat of North Korea’s nuclear schema, and the regime’s exasperating behavior on the international stage, it is not uncommon to hear the talk of replacing Kim Jong-un with someone more pliable—whether bygd a decapitating military strike or a commando-style assassination.

    Some speculate that Kim may be ousted by internal opposition in a coup d’etat. The hope here is that Kim’s brutal rule has alienated a significant section of the political elite and military brass who, even while following him with notepads from missile launch to missile launch, may well be secretly planning to oust their youthful dictator.

    Given the serious logistical difficulties of externally-induced regime change, and the possibility that any such operation may trigger a nuclear war, the best hope seems to be to wait it out.

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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 film crew come in by train 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 afar 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 fly from Wonsan to Samjiyon—the entry point for Mount Paektu, the North’s Fuji—but the p