Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty (185 page)

Voice of America,
368
,
495–496

Rangoon bombing,
323

Reagan, Ronald,
152–153

regime change

Gang of Four scenario,
492–493

South Korea’s caution,
672

U.S. advocates of,
86
,
672–674
,
677–678

See also
coup d’état

regime collapse, prospects,
433
,
440
,
449
,
454
,
457
,
478
,
494
,
503
,
522
,
553–555
,
626
,
635
,
659
,
672
,
683–684

religion

belief as political offense,
292
,
599

See also
Buddhism, Christianity

Republic of Korea (South Korea, ROK) formation of,
62

Respected Mother
(omonim),
701–703

revisionism, Soviet and Eastern European,
121
,
474
,
574
,
652

See also
co-existence, peaceful; Stalinism: de-Stalinization

Rhee Syngman

Connally remarks abhorred by,
67

economic development lagging under,
100

land reform postponement sought by,
91

northward invasion hopes of,
62
,
65–66
,
79
,
87
,
99

overthrown,
104

Republic of Korea proclaimed by,
61

senility,
114

trusteeship opposed by,
54

Ridgway, Gen. Matthew,
84

riots,
54
,
56

Ri Ul-sol, Gen.,
208

Rivers, Rep. L. Mendel,
129

“rogue state,”
671

Roh Moo-hyun (South Korean president),
675

Roh Tae-woo (South Korean president),
395–396
,
440
,
465
,
476
,
480

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
50

Rumsfeld, Donald,
672

Rusk, Dean,
50
,
131

sabotage,
6

safety, workplace,
158–159
,
174
,
438

Samsung,
485
,
639

sanctions,
451
,
635
,
654
,
671
,
672

savings, household,
164

Sea of Blood
,
249–251
,
254–255
,
272
,
327

Sea of Japan (East Sea),
101

second Korean war

factions of commanders, party commissars turning one another in,
520
,
526

looting, as fatal KPA distraction in,
520

“one million lives, $1 trillion damages” in,
676

scenarios,
512
,
519–520

war plan, U.S.–South Korean,
665

Seoul,
50

first capture of,
72

invaders’ rest-and-celebration stop in,
72

as political center of peninsula,
55

pre-invasion attitudes in,
71

Olympics,
343
,
378–379

proximity to DMZ,
87
,
513

second capture of,
83–84

sex, courtship and marriage,
164
,
169–170
,
201–202
,
229
,
268
,
307
,
316
,
319–320
,
340
,
401
,
538
,
580
,
581
,
583
,
618
,
620
.
See also
Korean People’s Army: sex

Shin Jong-hui (Kim Jong-nam’s wife),
686

Shin Myung-chul (State Security; defector),
112
,
423–424
,
594–595

Shin Sang-ok (South Korean film director kidnapped by Kim Jong-il),
326–339

Shu Chung-shin (dancer; defector),
310–314
,
366

siesta,
178

Sino-Soviet split,
113
,
125
,
142–143

small businesses,
663

Smith, Rear Adm. John Victor,
129

smuggling,
155
,
581

punishment reduced, during famine,
566

by regime,
574

Socialist Working Youth, League of,
403–404
,
579–580

corruption scandal in,
574

shock units,
419

Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries,
2
,
141

Society for Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union,
108

Sohn Jong-do, Rev. (Kim Il-sung’s benefactor),
25–28

Sohn Won-tai (Rev. Sohn’s son; Kim Ilsung’s childhood friend),
25–26

So Kwan-hui (agriculture minister),
575
,
624

songbun
,
226
.
See also
family background,

status and

Song Hye-rang (Song Hye-rim’s sister),
687–688

defection,
693

Song Hye-rim (unofficial wife of Kim Jongil; mother of Kim Jong-nam),
686–690
,
693–694
,
697

Song of Best Wishes
,
474–475

“Song of General Kim Il-sung,”
72–73
,
88
,
214

Song of Paradise
,
1–9

South Korea, crises tempting Pyongyang or arousing its hopes, 483 1960, 124 1979, 151 1980, 152 1987,
436

South Korean economic cooperation,
476
,
668
,
670
.
See also
investment, external: from South Korea; trade, external: with South Korea

South Korean military

budget,
113

troop reduction,
113

Soviet Army

Eighty-eighth Special Independent Sniper

Brigade,
48–51

Korean War planning role of advisors from,
69

troops withdrawal, 1948,
64

Soviet documents, findings from,
54
,
57
,
66
,
81
,
106

Soviet Koreans

post-liberation role of,
9
,
52

purged,
94–95
,
109–111

Soviet Union

cultural influences,
108

disguise of Korean War role,
89

military equipment shipments by,
69

role in liberation of Korea,
7
,
50–51
,
109

role in North, post-liberation,
51–68
,
108

satellite status of North Korea, American assumption of,
115

sports

golf,
348–349
,
660

table tennis,
8
,
599–600

world tournament (1979),
140–142
,
343

Stakhanovism,
57
,
96
,
159
,
252
,
359
,
475

Stalin, Josef,
558

death of, effects,
86
,
106

in Korean War,
81–83
,
88

in Pacific War,
50

southward invasion approval by,
62–68

succession problems, as lesson,
266

Stalinism,
8

de-Stalinization,
106–107
,
113
,
292

See also
Kim Il-sung: personality cult: Stalinism as antecedent of

state capitalism,
111
,
120

State Security (secret police),
226
,
262
,
266–269
,
291
,
297

abuses addressed by regime,
571

hatred of,
297

and regime’s fear of internal threat,
493–494

Third Department (experiments on prisoners),
604

strategic hamlets,
35

subversion, of North Korea

balloon drops,
385
,
395
,
410
,
522–523
,
532
,
678

as threat justifying national isolation,
125

See also
radio, external broadcasts

subversion, of South Korea

after Korean War,
98
,
99
,
105

before Korean War,
61
,
63
,
67
,
72
,
95

from 1960s,
120
,
126–127
,
133
,
152

from 1987,
364–368
, 443 1990s,
478
,
483
,
490
,
645–646

Voice of the Revolutionary Party for Reunification,
153

sun, as symbol of Kim Il-sung,
7

sunshine policy (South Korea),
630
,
637
,
646–647
,
649
,
675

Supreme People’s Assembly,
62
,
322
,
436
,
551
,
661

surveillance

of military,
494

by police,
155
,
262–269
,
291–297
,
310
,
377
,
433

by Three Revolutions teams,
274–275

Tae-an work system,
122

Taedong River,
13

Tanaka, Makiko,
685

tax,
6
,
106

Team Spirit exercises,
139
,
446
,
457
,
486
,
488–489
,
490–491

technocrats,
155
,
474

technology

imports of,
155
,
347

pirating of,
157

telephones,
212
,
662

terrorism,
343
,
499
,
535

television