Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (179 page)

as purpose of education system,
166–167

true believers, altruists, fanatics,
6
,
361–363
,
367–368
,
374–401
,
453
,
454
,
455
,
475
,
487
,
492
,
493
,
501
,
508
,
537
,
566
,
584
,
675

industry

armaments manufacturing,
559
,
563
,
564–565
,
567
,
576
,
578

expansion (after Korean War),
96

idling (due to material shortages, 1990s),
433
,
442
,
469
,
531
,
561
,
563
,
584

nationalization,
96

production resumed,
634
,
663

shipbuilding,
177

infiltration

into North,
99

into South,
98
,
129
,
151
, 535–542 1996 submarine landing,
512

tunnels,
139
,
513

inheritance,
164

intellectuals,
159
,
291

International Monetary Fund,
634

investment, external,
340
,
347–348
,
465–466
,
469–481
,
639
,
672

laws, regulations concerning,
471
,
473–474

from South Korea,
477–478

rich migrants from North, specifically,
480

See also
Japan: Korean residents of: investment, donations, remittances by

Iraq, lessons from,
483
,
489
,
513
,
659

isolation

related to subversion attempts,
125

as U.S. policy,
495

Japan

abducted citizens of,
637
,
670
,
697

army of,
7

collaborators with,
57
,
60–61
,
121
,
231
,
238
,
280
,
448

colonization by,
15
,
174

compensation for,
440–442
,
476

danger to, if South Korea communized,
115

desperate 1941 war decision, comparison,
512

earthquake, Tokyo area,
19

emperor worship, imposed on Koreans,
8
,
330

External Trade Organization (JETRO),
183

Hiroshima atomic bombing,
50

investment,
475

Korean residents of,
19
,
100
,
461–464
,
699–700

discrimination against,
101
,
263
,
462

investment, donations, remittances by,
348
,
461
,
464
,
471
,
671
,
700

pachinko
,
263
,
297
,
461
,
462

returnees to North Korea,
101–104
,
228–229
,
263–265
,
297–301
,
311
,
313
,
584
,
699
(
see also
Chongryon)

liberation from,
7
,
50–51

missiles negotiations,
635–637

in nuclear weapons crisis, early 1990s,
436
,
439–441
,
489

sanctions threatened,
671

trade,
181
,
442
,
475–476
,
477

unification and,
683

joblessness, as prima facie evidence of theft,
531

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
128
,
129
,
132

juche
ideology

definition and origin of term,
111
,
123

economic self-reliance in,
176–177
,
644

as impossible goal,
123–124
,
338

socialist barter system’s collapse and,
476

medicine and,
175

national culture and,
171

promoted in
New York Times
ads,
138

Sino-Soviet split and,
113
,
123

Kanemaru, Shin,
439–441
,
489

Kang Chul-ho (prison camp inmate; defector),
301–304
,
567

Kang Chul-hwan (political prison camp inmate; South Korean journalist),
298–301
,
600–603
,
631

Kang Myong-do (son-in-law of prime minister),
275
,
277
,
280
,
281
,
318
,
342
,
386
,
437
,
439
,
472
,
503–505
,
548

on aid to Third World,
137

on Chilgol Kangs’ views of Kim Hyongjik,
14

on elite’s fears, early 1990s,
494

on foreign transactions,
181–182
,
276

on Mansions Special Volunteer Corps,
315–316

trading career of,
579–582

Kang Pang-sok (Kim Il-sung’s mother),
14

illness and death of,
32

as laundress and seamstress,
22

Kang Ryang-uk, Rev. (Kim Il-sung’s relative

and teacher; vice president),
18
,
56

Kang Song-san (prime minister),
491
,
504
,
525
,
580
,
581

Kelly, James,
655
,
659–660
,
674
,
675
,
676

Kennedy, John F.,
125
,
129

Kerry, John,
675

Khrushchev, Nikita

in Cuban Missile Crisis,
125

on Korean War,
63
,
82–83

opposes Stalinism,
106–107
,
292
,
574

and peaceful coexistence,
123

kidnapping,
535

of defecting diplomat’s son,
592–596
,
631–632

of prospective foreign language teachers,
328

of South Korean movie director and actress,
326–339

See also
Japan: abducted citizens of

Kim, Shura (younger brother of Kim Jongil),
187
,
205–207

Kim Bo-hyon (Kim Il-sung’s grandfather),
205

Kim Byong-ha (State Security head; coup plot leader),
281
,
548

Kim Byong-jin (Kim Il-sung’s daughter by Kim Song-ae),
190
,
282

Kim Chaek (Korean War frontline commander; partisan),
239

Kim Chang-bong (defense minister),
293
,
547
,
548
,
606

Kim Chol-ju (brother of Kim Il-sung),
33

Kim Dae-ho (KPA sergeant; atomic worker; defector),
229–232
,
437–438
,
491
,
586–587

Kim Dae-jung (South Korean president),
375
,
630–631
,
634
,
652
,
654
,
655

Kim Dal-hyon (deputy prime minister),
468
,
472
,
473
,
474
,
476
,
480
,
485

struggle with opponents of reform,
504–505

Kim Dong-kyu (vice-president; partisan),
277
,
280
,
293

Kim Guk-tae (party personnel chief),
239
,
246
,
504–505
,
644

Kim Hye-suk (wife of Kim Il-sung),
43
.
See also
Han Song-hui

Kim Hyon (or Hyon-nam; party propaganda, agitation chief),
690
,
699

Kim Hyong-gwon (uncle of Kim Il-sung),
14
,
33

Kim Hyong-jik (father of Kim Il-sung),
13–14

achievements inflated,
245

Christian ties of,
16

death of,
20

as medical practitioner,
17

Kim Hyon-hui (terrorist bomber of South Korean airliner),
536–537
,
598

family’s treatment dismaying fellow spies,
541

Kim Hyong-rok (uncle of Kim Il-sung),
189

Kim Il (no. 3 under Kim Il-sung; partisan),
190
,
271
,
277

Kim Il-sung

adoration, flattery, need for,
46
,
88
,
194–195
,
261

advisory, figurehead role, in retirement,
484–485

rumored unhappiness over,
506

alcohol, first drink,
20

architecture, taste in,
197

assassination attempts on,
56
,
87

authoritarianism of,
38
,
49
,
60
,
106

on authority figures’ need to live behind

screens,
708

birth of, as Kim Song-ju,
13
,
29

birthday celebrations of,
3
,
195
,
256–258
,
328
,
329
,
330
,
446
,
473
,
474–475

books and,
22

capitalism and,
21

Changdok School, student at,
18–19

change, attempts at, before death,
498–506

charisma of,
188
,
440

childhood and youth of,
11–28

and children,
43–44
,
166
,
192
,
200–201

Chinese language and,
18
,
22
,
30

Chinese education of,
18
,
22
,
40