Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walker laughed, admitted that Kim II Sung had escaped him. To Walker, MacArthur gave orders that South Korean forces should begin an all-out drive for the Manchurian border. Then the 70-year-old supreme commander boarded the SCAP again, headed back to Tokyo...
...week's end the North Korean Communist radio announced that Red Premier Kim Il Sung had established a provisional capital at Sinuiju, just south of the Manchurian line in western Korea...
Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Across the road from his office was Kim's private air-raid bunker, 70 to 100 feet underground and connected by a tunnel with the residence of his Russian advisers. In the bunker Kim had complete living quarters, a music room with an organ and a one-chair barber shop...
...fleeing Communist troops, North Korean Premier Kim II Sung last week broadcast his version of why North Korea lost the war. Said Comrade Kim, from a safe spot on the Manchurian border: "Improper organization of the Korean Communist Party and failure to understand and apply the principles of Communism are responsible...