Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Young Kim and the United Army
Background
Kim and the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army
Guerrilla Accomplishments
Consolidation of Political Power
The Soviet Occupation of North Korea
The Workers' Party of Korea
The Republic and the Army
Challenges to Kim's Leadership
The Korean War and Kim's Rivals
After the War
Search for Korean Identity
Mobilization Campaigns
The Sino-Soviet Dispute and Kim Il Sung
Problems in Kim's Independence
The Rise of the Military
The South Korean Revolution
Disintegration of the Partisan Group
North Korea Under Kim
South Korea and the Third World
The Shift from Party to State
Semiretirement in the New Era
Church'e and the Republic
On Kim's Political Thought
The Republic by Kim
Partisans of the United Army in North Korean Politics
Partisans of the United Army Not in North Korean Politics
Partisans Who Died Before the Liberation of Korea
Chronology of Kim Il Sung
Notes
Bibliography
Index