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Kim Jong Il Bibliography
Kim Jong Il (16 February 1941/1942 – 17 December 2011) was the Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. According to North Korean sources, Kim Jong Il published some 890 works during a period of his career from June 1964 to June 1994. According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the number of works from 1964 to 2001 was 550. In 2000, it was reported that the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House has published at least 120 works by Kim. In 2009, KCNA put the numbers as follows: Two collections exist, the ''Selected Works of Kim Jong-il'' (김정일선집) and the ''Complete Collection of Kim Jong-il's Works'' (김정일전집). Both contain forged works that Kim never wrote, included to give readers the impression that he was working with ideologically formulating the ''Juche'' idea in his youth. In reality, Kim only sporadically talked about the topic. When he did, mentions were typically backdated. For instance, a speech published in 1984 called '' On ...
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Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un. In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and assumed important posts in the party and army organs. Kim succeeded his father and DPRK founder Kim Il-sung, following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), WPK Presidium, Chairman of the National Defence Commission (NDC) of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world. Kim ruled North Korea as a repressive and totalitarian dictatorship. Kim assumed leadership during ...
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On The Art Of Opera
''On the Art of Opera'' is a 1974 treatise by Kim Jong-il on opera. According to Korea University associate professor of North Korean studies Jae-Cheon Lim, it is one of the most important North Korean works on the arts. At the time of writing, Kim had just started his career in the North Korean cultural industry. The piece takes as its framework the ''Juche'' ideology and "seed" theory that Kim had previously applied to cinema. Because opera is a mixed art form, Kim finds it particularly revealing of a nation's artistic state and important for the application of his seed theory. Kim finds hierarchies between and within elements of opera, like instruments subordinate to vocals and music over dance. The main thrust of the work is to replace classical – mainly Western but also certain forms of Korean – opera with an allegedly superior Korean revolutionary opera. Kim analyzes various Western operatic forms such as aria, recitative, and leitmotif to reject them. In Kim's view, ...
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Korean Friendship Association
The Korean Friendship Association (KFA, es, Asociación de Amistad con Corea) is a Spain-based friendship association with North Korea. The KFA was established in November 2000. It claims to have official representatives in 34 countries. The KFA was designated 'North Korean state controlled media' by Facebook. Its president, Spanish citizen Alejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérez, is the only person paid a salary. Fees collected by the KFA are generally deposited in accounts in his name around Europe. Activities Compared with other North Korea friendship associations, the KFA is more radical. The KFA pages provide North Korean related material, including tourism tips and political essays, and it is possible to hear views from a North Korean perspective. The KFA Forum site is hosted and administered in Europe and gives links to Korean language teaching sites. The KFA denies violations of human rights in North Korea and disputes the existence of North Korean concentration c ...
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Marxist Bibliography
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that analyzes class relations and societal conflict, that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, and a dialectical view of social transformation. Marxist methodology uses economic and sociopolitical inquiry and applies that to the critique and analysis of the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change. This is a Marxist bibliography sorted by author. Marxist bibliography See also * Marxists Internet Archive Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit online encyclopedia that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ... References {{reflist External links Marxists Internet Archive ...
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Kim Jong Un Bibliography
Kim Jong Un (born 8 January 1982) has been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of Kim Jong-il, the previous leader and his father. On 15 April 2012, the centenary of the birth of North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Un made his first major public speech, entitled '' Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun''. At least two works predate this speech. ''To All the Service Personnel and People Who Deeply Mourned the Death of Comrade'' is dated 26 March. Kim published ''Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party'' shortly before the 11 April Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea(조선로동당 제4차 대표자회), which conferred on Kim Jong Il the posthumous title "Eternal General Secretary". ''The Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People'', also from 2012 and pr ...
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Kim Il Sung Bibliography
Kim Il Sung (15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the leader of North Korea for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. According to North Korean sources, the works of Kim Il Sung amount to approximately 10,800 speeches, reports, books, treatises and other types of works. , about 60 of them are considered to be particularly important by outside observers. Kim Il Sung's works are published and republished in countless collections. These include the 100-volume ''Complete Works of Kim Il-sung'' (''chŏnjip(전집)''), the 50-volume ''Collected Works'' (''chŏjakchip(저작집)'') and the 15-volume ''Selected Works'' (''sŏnjip(선집)''). In North Korea, his works are published by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House, but front organizations in Japan publish unofficial Korean-language editions as well. North Korean sources say that publishing houses in 110 countries have published works of Kim Il Sung in translations in some 60 languages. Th ...
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Pulgasari
''Pulgasari'' () is a 1985 North Korean horror-action kaiju film directed by Shin Sang-ok. It stars Chang Son Hui and Pak Sung Ho and features special effects by Duk Ho Kim, supervised by Teruyoshi Nakano. The film centers around the legend of the Bulgasari and is based on the lost 1962 film from South Korea of the same name. Director Shin had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung and was coerced into making several films as a director, with ''Pulgasari'' being his final before he and his wife, actress Choi Eun-hee, escaped to the United States.Backrow BanterThe Dear Leader, The Director And The Director’s Wife/ref> Plot In feudal Korea, during the Goryeo Dynasty, a king controls the land with an iron fist, subjecting the peasantry to misery and starvation. An old blacksmith who was sent to prison for defending his people creates a tiny figurine of a monster by making a doll of rice and before ...
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Kim Chaek University Of Technology
Kim Chaek University of Technology is a university in North Korea, on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang. It is named after General Kim Chaek. The university's programs in nuclear reactors, nuclear electronics, nuclear fuel and nuclear engineering specialize in training researchers and technical personnel. Graduates are reportedly posted to the Yŏngbyŏn Nuclear Research Center or to nuclear facilities in Pakch'ŏn-kun. History Kim Chaek University of Technology was originally part of Kim Il Sung University before it was established as the Pyongyang College of Technology (平壤工業大學) in 1948. In 1951, during the Korean War, the college's name was changed to Kim Chaek College of Technology (金策工業大學). (General Kim Ch'aek died in the war.) In 1988, the college was elevated to a university (綜合大學). Between 1981 and 1993, a large-scale construction program doubled the size of the campus to its present 400,000m2. Academics The university has 18 dep ...
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Kim Chaek
Kim Chaek (, 14 August 1903 – 31 January 1951) was a North Korean revolutionary, military general, and politician. His real name was Kim Hong-gye (). Life Kim Chaek was born in Sŏngjin, North Hamgyong, Korea, in 1903. He and his family fled to Manchuria after Korea was colonized by Japan. In 1927, Kim joined the Communist Party of China and the Anti-Japanese movement to oppose the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned for his resistance activities. After his release from prison, Kim joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army in 1935 and fought alongside Kim Il-sung. He fled to the Soviet Union to escape the Japanese conquest of the partisans in 1940. He lived in Khabarovsk where he met with Kim Il-sung and formed the 88th Special Brigade. After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, he returned to Korea along with the Soviet Army in 1945. On September 9, 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established, Kim became the industry minister and deputy prime ...
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Nation And Destiny
''Nation and Destiny'' () is a 62-part North Korean film series released between 1992 and 2002. It aims to show that the Korean people "can live a glorious life only in the bosom of the Great Leader and socialist fatherland". Kim Jong Il personally chose the title and was extensively involved in the early episodes. Conceived as the largest film series ever produced in any country, it was the largest investment ever made in the history of North Korean cinema. Initially, the most senior writers, directors and actors were involved in the project and it was heavily promoted by the North Korean media. The series was projected to reach 100 episodes, but none have been released since 2002. Motable for its scenes set in the West and South Korea, some of which even filmed on location in western countries not officially at war with North Korea, such as France, it is also noteworthy is its portrayal of the "anti-system figure" Han Sorya, who was purged in the 1960s by Kim Il Sung, in a posit ...
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Our Socialism Centred On The Masses Shall Not Perish
''Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish'' is a 1991 work by Kim Jong Il. It seeks to explain that socialism in North Korea will be unaffected by the fall of communism elsewhere because it is based on the ''Juche'' ideology. History Kim Jong Il gave the talk ''Our Socialism Centred on the Masses Shall Not Perish'' on May 5, 1991 to "senior officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea". The context of the speech was the then-ongoing processes of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, economic reform in China, and problems facing socialism in Cuba and North Korea. A few years later, in 1994, the premise of the speech that continuity of socialism in North Korea seems under jeopardy was further accentuated by the death of Kim Il-sung. Against this background, the speech was "a bold defiance of global historical trends". According to Kim, North Korea will not be affected by the fall of communism because North Korean socialism is of a different ki ...
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Granma (newspaper)
''Granma'' is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. It was formed in 1965 by the merger of two previous papers, (from Spanish: "Revolution") and ("Today"). Publication of the newspaper began in February of 1966. Its name comes from the yacht '' Granma'' that carried Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels to Cuba's shores in 1956, launching the Cuban Revolution. The newspaper has been a way for the Cuban Communist Party to communicate their ideology to the world, especially in regards to the United States. Marta Rojas worked for the paper since its founding. Editions The newspaper is published daily and is the most widely read newspaper in Cuba. In 1997, the circulation of the newspaper was estimated to be approximately 675,000. Several weekly international editions, available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish and Portuguese, are also distributed abroad. Apart from Cuba, ''Granma'' is also printed in Argentina, Brazil ...
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