Kim Il-Sung's First Speech

The Soviets had Kim Il-sung deliver a speech test written by Soviet officials. The speech did not go well and Cho's secretary later described him as speaking in a duck-like voice with a haircut like a Chinese waiter. He was said to look like a fat delivery boy from a neighborhood Chinese food stall. Others called him a fraud or a Soviet stooge. So again, like it looks like kind of a long shot at the start. But eventually Stalin gets fed up with it and has that guy arrested and disappeared into a gulag somewhere.