Kim Il Sung(1912-1994)
He was the absolute ruler of North Korea for 46 years,the first communist head of state who established dynastic rule. It was known as the Hermit Kingdom because of its sealed borders and attempted isolation from its powerful neighbors. Later, Korea was annexed by Japan two years before Kim's birth. Kim since he was young was against the Japanese. Later, he fled with his parents to escape Japanese oppression.
He joined the Chinese Communist party and fought on different wars until he was forced to flee Manchuria for the Soviet Union when Japanese Imperial forces defeated the Chinese guerrillas with whom he was fighting. There, Kim received his military and political training at the Soviet party school in Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East. Years later, Korea was divided into North korea and South Korea.
After World War II, Kim had been picked by local Soviet commanders in Pyongyang to be North Korea's leader, in part because they knew few other Koreans. In exchange for his loyalty, the Soviets made him the premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea when it was officially founded in 1948. One of his first acts as Premier was to convince his Soviet military supporters that he could sweep across the 38th parallel, conquer South Korea in three weeks, and re-unify the country; he also convinced Stalin of this.
Kim invaded South Korea armed by the Soviets in june 1950. Later, Stalin ceased his military support of Kim, so he then turned to Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) who entered the war with Chinese troops. When the war ended, it ended as it had started with the 38th parallel and Kim's idea of unification lost.
Kim died in 1994.
The Korean War, which lasted until July 25, 1953, was, in part, a manifestation of Kim's ambition to unify the Korean peninsula through military means.
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