Kim Il-sung’sfather KimByong-jikand mother Kang Ban-sokmet and married through an AmericanPresbyterianmissionary by the name of Nelson Bell.[ReverendBill Graham’s father-in-law]Initially, Kim Il-sung’smother went by the name of Kang Shin-hee, until Bell baptized her and gave her the baptized name, Ban-sok, Korean for “founding rock,” referring to Peter, the founder of the church.* *Yu Soon-ho,TheKim Il-sung Biography(김일성평전),JiWonPublishing, Seoul, 2017https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20170109144900014 Kim Il-sung Born to a Christian Family In North Korea, the children are taught that Kim Il-s
A Liberty Korea Post correspondent from RyangGangdo North Korea communicated thefollowing news item: Kim Jong-un stated in the State Affairs Committee meeting that “there willbe no talks with the U.S. in the future.” This statement came on October 8, when Kim held ameeting regarding “the 5-year plan for national economic development.” The meeting was focused on the progress report submitted to Kim Jong-un by the State AffairsCommittee Planning Bureau. The report detailed the construction progress of the projectswhich were initially scheduled to be completed by October 10 of next year. However,
Liberty Korea Post* correspondent from Yanji filed the following report. Two male students from Osandok Middle School in HoeRyong were apprehended by the Chinese police for dealing drugs (Methamphetamine) last August. Sixteen years old, the 9th graders were caught with 3 kilos of meth, which constituted a capital crime. The Chinese police were shocked that the youngsters were involved in such a major crime. Meanwhile, the police back in North Korea carried out an investigation regarding the two students who had disappeared during the summer vacation. They had checked the CCTV tapes from the ri
The following essay waswritten by Kim Hyeong-su, a North Korean defector who had lived through the"Arduous March" during the 1990s. After studying biology at KimIl-sung University, he was selected to work at The Longevity Institute atKumsusan Palace as a research fellow from 1990 to 1995. He later served asmember of the RyangGang Province Committee for ten years in Hyesan until 2009.Having witnessed the harsh conditions firsthand, he offers valuable insightsinto what was going on in North Korea during the famine that claimed millionsof lives. --Translated byJohn Cha North Korea's large-scale
A former agent of the North Korea State Security Agency (SSA), Mr. Kang, defected from North Korea in mid-August. A twenty-year veteran at the SSA, he has relayed interesting information that assassination attempts against Kim Jong-un are continuing. He said that there had been a number of attempts against Kim the first and the second. What’s interesting is that Kim Jong-un is facing these attempts so early in his tenure as the leader of North Korea. According to Kang, the SSA records show that Kim Il-sung had faced nine threats, while Kim Jong-il, 14 times. In general, the attempts against Ki
Liberty Korea Post has learned last week that North Korean SSA (State Security Agency) is currently carrying out a major purge operation reminiscent of the ShimHwaJo incident in 1997. About 1,200 mid-to-high level class personnel—suspected of anti-state activities similar to the ShimHwaJo case—are undergoing interrogation at SSA and Military Security Command facilities in Pyongyang. This information comes from Mr. Kang [alias], a former SSA agent who recently defected. According to Kang, the detained personnel have consisted of members from WPK (Workers Party of Korea), the executive departmen
Great Leader Kim Il-sung was convinced that vinylon was the revolutionary fiber material, the answer to the textile needs for all humanity. He invested upward of $10 billion and built the SoonChun vinylon factory in PyongAnNamdo in 1989 to produce this new, revolutionary material. He called it the historic “Juche textile.” He called it Juche, self-reliant, because the new material was made from limestone and anthracite (hard coal), natural resources abundant in North Korea. With fanfare on a historic scale the entire nation of North Korea joined in the opening ceremony of the century. Vinylon
North Korean public trial, SinUiJu, 2011. Captured from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgqNaQ2mWg Another round of purges is blowing across the border area in North Korea. On July 21, the citizens of Hoeryung (a northern city situated along the Duman River) were notified to report to schoolyards in their respective neighborhoods by 11:00 am. The residents followed the order to muster, though not sure what was going on. Soon, they learned that the Party authorities were conducting another round of public trials. The public trial was coined “Citizens General Assembly.” The city of Hoeryung has
North Korea often claims that it had purged all the Japanese elements and influence at all levels. At the same time, it accuses the South Korean government of maintaining the colonial system. Many South Korean politicians (Moon Jae-in among them) agree with this North Korean claim and insist that the South—like the North—should purge the remnants of the Japanese colonialism from the Korean lexicon. The question is—did North Korea really purge the Japanese influence from the get-go as they claim? Not so. Here are some examples. For starters, Kim Young-ju, Kim Il-sung’s youngest brother, was a s
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