Kim IL Sung Prodigy of Human ThinkingBy University Press of the Pacific
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Kim IL Sung, the Communist unifier of Korea, made a great impact on the world as a whole. He formed a new nation almost single-handedly and started a communist government that lasts to this day.
On April 15, 1912 Kim IL Sung was born in North Korea, the eldest of three sons by a village couple named Kim Hyonh Jik and Kang Pan Sok. Kim and his family immigrated to Manchuria in the 1920's like many Korean families did at the time. In Manchuria, Kim attended a Chinese school. At the age of fifteen, Kim was arrested and imprisoned for a year by the Chinese authorities for having been a founding member of a Communist Youth League. After his release from jail in 1930, Kim founded the Korean Revolutionary Army, a guerrilla group that fought against the Japanese military. In 1931, Kim left for the hills of eastern Manchuria to join a Chinese Communist guerrilla group fighting the Japanese military in Manchuria. Kim swiftly rose up the ranks of the Chinese Communist Army. Between the years 1932-1941, Kim led a band of Korean guerrillas against Japanese positions and personnel in Manchuria...