Interesting little piece by Reuters discussing Kim “Yura” Jong-il’s early life and what his dad was really doing during the struggle against Japan (hint: it wasn’t shooting Japanese). Anyway, here’s a snippet:
VYATSKOYE, Russia - Most people in this village in Russia’s Far East are too young to recall the Koreans who trained here in a secret Soviet army camp more than 60 years ago.
But Anatoly Korovyakov, the oldest man in Vyatskoye at 77, remembers clearly how one Korean couple gave birth to their first child in the camp in 1942.
The villagers called the boy Yura. The rest of the world now knows him as Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea.
Official biographies in the isolated communist state say Kim was born in a log cabin on Korea’s sacred Mount Paekdu, while his father, Kim Il-sung, was leading a heroic struggle against Japanese colonial rule.
But Korovyakov and two former KGB officers tell a very different story.
Read the rest on your own.
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“Kim was a common man. He did not fight against the Japanese. He simply escaped from the Japanese,” Park has said.”
What? Does that mean Kimmy was a pussy? Say it ain’t so…
That Kim Il Sung was a KGB asset has been known for quite a while. At this point we also know that he launched the Korean War with the approval of both Stalin and Mao.
The hagiography of the North is truly amazing, and appears to work, as the story of the cheerleaders on the bus illustrates.
Scary, scary place. Nutso, Nutso place.
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TITLE: Chia Dictator’s Birth Story A Fraud
BLOG NAME: Jim Lynch’s Blog
Marmot also has a link to a story about Chia Dictator’s birth. Apparently it doesn’t synch up well with the propaganda he’s created to get his people to believe in his “god-like” status. The clock is ticking for Chia Dictator,…