2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations IX
4. Preface to the Paperback Edition XI
5. Preface XVII
6. Part I: Young Kim and the United Army
7. 1. Background 1
8. 2. Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army 15
9. 3. Guerrilla Accomplishments 30
10. Part II: Consolidation of Political Power
11. 4. The Soviet Occupation of North Korea 55
12. 5. The Workers’ Party of Korea 74
13. 6. The Republic and the Army 95
14. Part III. Challenges to Kim’s Leadership
15. 7. The Korean War and Kim’s Rivals 107
16. 8. After the War 137
17. Part IV. Search for Korean Identity
18. 9. Mobilization Campaigns 159
19. 10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung 176
20. Part V. Problems in Kim’s Independence
21. 11. The Rise of the Military 209
22. 12. The South Korean Revolution 224
23. 13. Disintegration of the Partisan Group 238
24. Part VI. North Korea under Kim
25. 14. South Korea and the Third World 249
26. 15. The Shift from Party to State 269
27. 16. Semiretirement in the New Era 287
28. Part VII. Chuch’e and the Republic
29. 17. On Kim’s Political Thought 299
30. 18. The Republic by Kim 314
31. Appendix 1. Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics 325
32. Appendix 2. Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics 329
33. Appendix 3. Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea 330
34. Appendix 4. Chronology of Kim II Sung 333
35. Notes 339
36. Bibliography 401
37. Index 423
38. The East Asian Institute of Columbia University 439