Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Part I: Young Kim and the United Army
1. Background
2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
3. Guerrilla Accomplishments
Part II: Consolidation of Political Power
4. The Soviet Occupation of North Korea
5. The Workers' Party of Korea
6. The Republic and the Army
Part III. Challenges to Kim's Leadership
7. The Korean War and Kim's Rivals
8. After the War
Part IV. Search for Korean Identity
9. Mobilization Campaigns
10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung
Part V. Problems in Kim's Independence
11. The Rise of the Military
12. The South Korean Revolution
13. Disintegration of the Partisan Group
Part VI. North Korea under Kim
14. South Korea and the Third World
15. The Shift from Party to State
16. Semiretirement in the New Era
Part VII. Chuch'e and the Republic
17. On Kim's Political Thought
18. The Republic by Kim
Appendix 1. Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics
Appendix 2. Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics
Appendix 3. Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea
Appendix 4. Chronology of Kim II Sung
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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