Kim Il-Sung's Attitude

Mrs. Song usually went to work with one baby strapped to her back and one or two daughters dragging along behind her. Kim Il-Sung retooled ideas developed during his time as an anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter into instruments of social control. He instructed North Koreans that their power as human beings came from subsuming their individual will to that of the collective.

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