THE IDENTITY OF KIM IL SUNG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600270269-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 269
• Publication Date: December 12, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION EIKSTI3IC" .._N OTED
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
COUNTRY North Korea
SUBJECT Dtilitary; Political Biographical
NOW
PUBLISHED North?y periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Seoul
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep 1949
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Who is Kim Sung-Ju (Ueda: 12380, 3610, 4871), who presents himself as Kim
I1 Sung (12380, 4446, 3610)? The top-ranking traitor, Kim Sung-Ju, wart to Non-
churls with his parent* at the age of 14. While attending a Chinese high school
in Kirin, he lost his parents. Heeding money, he stole it from his classmates,
but once he was caught by one of them. Fearing possible disclosure, he killed
his classmate. He then immediately escaped to Lung-ching in Chien-tao. While
there, he decided to go to the Soviet Union, but he needed money. He succeeded
in meeting a man named Choi, who took him to Ha-erh-pin. Kim killed Choi for
his money.
Kim then went to eastern Manchuria where he wandered around until he net
Li Li-san, the notorious Chinese Communist, who was being pursued by Chiang's
army. Kim Sung-ju, now 18, became a member of the Chinese Camauniet Youth Group.
Li Li-van discovered his to be extremely reliable in executing drastic measures.
Kim was immediately accepted into the Chinese Communist Party.
There was actually a General Kim 11 Sung (12380, 4446, 3610), a graduate
of the Japanese Military Academy, who, in 1919, began fighting the Japanese with
headquarters samewhere in the Phektu Mountains. This general, known for his
brilliant militaiy strategy, suddenly disappeared. In October 1931 Li Li-san
had Kim Sung-Jule aria changed to Kim Xl Sung (Ueda: 12380, 1,44991 and made
h~.m oomender of a guerrilla unit. He was sent to the Paektu )b ntaiu region
where the real General Kim I1 Sung used to operate.
Kim Sung-ju,. now as Kim Ii Sung, began his campaign against those who re-
fused to accept the Casaunist doctrine. His campaign slogan was, "This is w
fight for the laboring masses." He extended his area of operations to all of
Chien-tao. His actions were brutal and inhiman, but very pleasing to Li. In
1938, Sin was made commander of the Second Amy of the CCF to fight the Japanese,
and in 1942 he was made a high oificial of the COP. Kim was known for his
brutality even among his Chinese comrades,'and by the lots fall of 1942 all but
five of his followers left him.
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By this time, Stalin heard of Kim Sung-ju, alias Kim 11 Sung. In November 1942.
Stalin invited him to coma to the Korean section of tte Par Nast Bepartmant of the
Comeluniet Headquarters Branrh in M--barovsk, where Kim received his political train-
ing under the diract supervision of Shtikov, chief of the &nz-1n section, and later
chief of the Soviet 0coupat.on Army, in Pyongyang. Thus, Kim received very Inten-
sive training in Ccome:nism for 3 years, until the end. of Weald War II. Shtilnv'a
job was not only to teach Kim Soviet history and Leninism-Stalinism, but also to
work out plans to place him in a strategic position i, ostwar Korean politics. In
short, Shtikov's in job was to "convert" Kips 11 Sung (Ueda: 12380, 1, 4499) to
Kim Il Sung (Ueda: 12380, 4445, 3510) in .3 years.
Kim is neither brilliant nor adequately educated, but he has proven himself
highly aocegtable to Stalin. The Japanese surrender :iaa a goldr-a opportunity for
both Stalin and Kim to Cosaunize Korea. It was at this time that Stalin ordered
Kim Sung-au to assume the identity of the "disappeared" General Kim Il. Sung (Ueda:
12380, 4446, 3510). In November 1945, Stalin appointed Ki* Secretary-General of
the North Korea Oci unist Party and finally designated Kim as the head of the North
Korea regime, with specific instructions to the leaders of that regime that there
should be no questions raised about Kim's Identity. Kim must be accepted by all
Korean Comaualata as the famous and patriotic general w$o for years fought the
Japanese from the &ektu Mountains.
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