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“He has traveled to North Korea twice.”
“Kim, The Martyred (Penguin) Richard E.”
“Kim’s breakthrough novel tells the morally complex story of fourteen church ministers captured during the Korean War.”
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“Told with tenderness and empathy, this evocative collection of stories from a third-generation Korean Christian writer captures the feelings of nationalism and shame that animated Kim Il Sung.”
“Kim, and More Jonathan Cheng October 15, 2026 Anyone who reads the news or has logged onto social media is aware of the cult of personality around North Korea’s Kim dynasty.”
“Here are five books that were essential to my understanding of the story.”
“* Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Random House) This work of narrative non-fiction is rightly hailed as the best work on North Korea’s devastating famine of the 1990s, which coincided with Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994.”
“Richard E.”
“But there’s a unique power to the accounts of overseas Koreans who accepted Pyongyang’s repatriation campaign in the 1960s.”
“Jim Jones adopted three Korean children, praised Kim Il Sung over the loudspeakers at Jonestown, sent his team to meet with North Korean officials, and even considered relocating Jonestown to Pyongyang.”
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“Over the course of twelve years of research and writing, the evidence was, to my mind, unmistakable.”
“_________________________ Jonathan Cheng’s Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea’s Personality Cult , a finalist for the 2026 Cundill History Prize , is available now.”
“Like Kang Chol-hwan’s better known Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (English translation 2001), the life story of Masaji Ishikawa—the pseudonym of a half-Korean, half-Japanese boy born just outside of postwar Tokyo—is a compelling if distressing read.”
“Here, Demick tells the story of Kim Il Sung’s 25 million subjects through the personal tales of just a few of them, bringing to life not only the tragedy of North Korea’s most difficult period, but also underscoring the power of the Kim family personality cult even at a moment when it seemed all was lost.”