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Part One: Kim Jong Un and His Family of Dictators

Behind the Bastards

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The Golden Years of Kim Il-Sung

The first 20 years or so of Kim Il-sung's reign, they're seen still today by the people who remember them as like the golden years of North Korea. He crafted a policy for his people called Jewish which is similar to the desire for autarky expressed by Adolf Hitler in the pre-war years. It's an ideology that the Korean people should and can be totally independent from the world outside of their borders. They don't need anything from other people.

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