Read Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty Online
Authors: Bradley K. Martin
Tags: #History, #Asia, #Korea
Bonesteel, Charles,
50
Brezhnev, Leonid,
112
Bucher, Cdr. Lloyd M. See
Pueblo
incident
Bush, George H. W.,
446
“faith-based initiatives,”
678
loathing of Kim Jong-il,
659
Nixon-in-China scenario,
671
bustle, compared with China’s,
185
,
662
Carter, Jimmy,
138–153
passim,
496–497
,
506
,
510
Castro, Fidel,
125
Ceaucescu, Nicolae and Elena,
492
,
503
,
517
,
547
Chang In-sook (banished architect-engineer; defector),
565–566
,
625–628
Chang Myon (South Korean prime minister),
104
Chang Song-taek (Kim Jong-il brother-inlaw, confidante),
190
,
574
,
587
,
660
,
690
chemical and biological weapons,
445
delivery systems,
488
experiments and accidents with,
488
sufficient to kill all in South,
487
Children’s Corps,
2
,
168
,
169
,
230
,
403–404
China
aid from,
8
as coup instigator, in Pentagon hopes,
672–674
interest in continued Korean division,
683
Korean War intervention by,
81
“loss” of, by U.S.,
74
merchants, traders, role in informing
oil supply from, as leverage in second
nuclear crisis,
660
women sold as wives and concubines,
678
forced abortions upon return,
679
Kim Jong-nam assigned to deal with,
696
ties to South Korea,
465
Chinese Communist Party,
34
Chinese People’s Volunteers,
82
role minimized, in propaganda,
92
withdrawal of,
114
Chistiakov, Gen. Ivan M.,
52
Choe Dong-chul (banished prison guard; defector),
563–564
,
608–611
,
615
Choe Gwang (military chief; partisan),
71
,
506
Choe Hyon (vice president; partisan),
222
Choe Jong-keun (external economic committee chair),
504
Choe Yong-gon (no. 2 under Kim Il-sung; partisan),
190
,
198
Choe Yong-hae (Socialist Working Youth chair),
222
,
574
,
579–580
Choi Eun-hi (South Korean movie actress kidnapped by Kim Jong-il),
326–339
Choi Jin-sok (guerrilla in Kim Il-sung’s band),
34
,
39–40
,
41
,
42
,
44
Choi Kwang-hyeok (KPA sergeant; defector),
515–516
,
518
Choi Myung-nam (Special Forces; defector),
514–515
,
518
,
572
Cho Man-sik (nonviolent reformist),
52
,
54
,
55
Chondoism,
349
Chong Ki-hae (repatriate from Japan; defector),
101–104
,
263–265
Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan),
101
,
297–298
,
323
,
326
,
461–462
Kim Jong-il’s 1998 talk with representatives of,
573–577
,
642–645
Christianity
cultural influences of,
172
evangelicals’ interest in U.S. government decisions on North Korea,
678
and Korean anti-Japanese movement,
15
regime’s explicit pre-Christmas comparison,
289
South Korean,
257
as target for Korean War occupation purge in South,
89
Chun Doo-hwan (South Korean president),
151
,
343
,
673
Chung Ju-yung (Hyundai founder),
477–478
,
480
,
648
class structure,
57
,
59
,
463
,
665–666
,
700
.
See also
family background, status and
jeans,
311
one outfit per person per season,
306
rationing suspended, due to shortage,
308
“silk,” promised by Kim Il-sung,
97
$67 jogging suits,
469
co-existence, peaceful,
97
,
107
,
123
,
647
comebacks, by out-of-favor officials,
279
communism
collapse in Soviet and Eastern Europe,
99
,
342
,
368
,
390
,
465
,
468
,
472
,
554
,
573
“new human beings” in,
173
communist countries’ economic integration
concentration camps.
See
punishment: political prisons and prison camps
concubinage,
188
.
See also
Mansions Special Volunteer Corps
Confucianism,
8
,
60
,
159
,
167–168
,
206
,
238
,
240
,
357
,
684
,
697
,
698
,
699
.
see also
Kim Il-sung: filial piety and
Connally, Sen. Tom,
67
constitution
1998,
641–642
construction,
292–295
,
353
,
362–363
,
476
,
480
,
626
consumer goods, stores,
121
,
179–180
,
308
,
345–347
,
360
,
449
,
469
,
583–584
containment, U.S. policy of,
65
,
86
bribery,
300
,
308
,
311
,
360
,
412
,
416–417
,
419–420
,
421
,
430
,
494
,
531
,
545
,
574
,
583–587
passim,
590
,
602–611
passim
embezzlement of grain, at collective farms, for market resale,
500
,
517
kickbacks,
583
lack of, in early years,
97
selling idled factory equipment as scrap
metal,
573
technology imports push and,
181–182
theft, at work,
389
counties, administration of,
224
,
559
coup d’état
attempts, plots,
543–550
Pentagon hardliners’ scenario,
672–674
criticism sessions,
174
,
180
,
218
,
273
,
283
,
292
,
302
,
530–531
Cuban Missile Crisis,
125
culture
policy on,
170–173
See also
national character
currency, foreign,
275
,
295
,
360
,
389
,
447
,
458–459
,
466
,
468
,
579–591
passim
accumulated by elite, to fund exile,
494
counterfeit “Super-K” $100 bills,
499
motive for missile exports,
636
regulations,
471
See also
Workers’ Party: Room
39