Kingdom of the Kims: Rise to Power | Inside North Korea's Dynasty

For decades, Korea and its people labor under Japanese imperialist rule. But in 1912, in a small town outside Pyongyang, a child is born — Kim Il Sung, coinciding with an omen of imperialism’s doom. This is the story of how an unknown guerrilla fighter rises to power, takes complete control of his...

47 min - World Affairs & Investigations - National Geographic

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