THE IDENTITY OF KIM IL SUNG

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• Document Creation Date: October 23, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2021-01399
• Publication Date: December 12, 1949

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY North Korea
SUBJECT Military; Political - Biographical
HOW
PUBLISHED Motthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Seoul
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep 1949
LANGUAGE
Korean
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THE IDENTITY or um ic sum
Who is Kim Sung-ju (Ueda: 12380, 3610, 4871), who presents himself as Kim
Il Sung (12380, 4446, 3610)? The top-ranking traitor, Kim Sung-ju, wort to Man-
churia with his parents at the age of 14. While attending a Chinese high school
in Kirin, he lost his parents. Needing :money, he stole it from his clasemates,
but mace 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 ow named Choi, who took him to Ha-erh-pin. Kim killed Choi for
his money.
Eta then vent to eastern lbmohuria shore he wandered around until he net
Li Li-ean the notorious Chinese Communist, who was being pursued by Chiang,e
army. KitSung-ju now 18, became a member of the Chinese Communist Youth Group.
Li Li-pan discovered him to be extremely reliable in executing drastic measures.
Kim was immediately accepted into the Chinese Communist Party.
There was actually a General Kim Ii Sung (12380, 4446, 3610), a graduate
of the.Jegenese Mftlitary Academy, who, in 1919, begin fighting the Japanese with
headquarters somewhere in the Paektu buntaine. This general, known for his
brilliant military strategy, suddenly disappeared. In October 1931, Li Li-ean
had Kira Sung-ju's name changed to Sim Il Sung (Ueda: 12380, 1,4499) and made
him commander of a guerrilla unit. He was sent to the Peskin Mbantain region
where the real General Kim Ii Sung used to operate.
Kim Sung-ju, now as Kim Il Sung, began his caamaign against those who re-
fused to accept the Communist doctrine. His campaign slogan was, "This is e.
right tor the Laboring masses." He extended his area of operations to all of
Chien-tao. His actions were brutal and inhuman, but very pleasing to Li. In
1938, Kim was made cconander of the Second Army of the CCF to fight the Japanese,
and in 1542 he was made a high official of the COP. Kim was known for his
brutality even among his Chinese comrades, ant by the late fall of 1542 all but
five of his followers left him.
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By this time, Stalin heard of Kim Sung-in, alias Kim Il Sung. In November 1942,
Stalin invited him to cone to the Korean section of tte Far Nast Department of the
Communist Beadquerters Branrh in E4.barovsk, where Kim received his political train-
ing under the direct supervision of Shtilrov, chief of the Karel= section, and later
chief of the Soviet Occupation Army, in Pyongyang. Thus, Kim received very inten-
sive tratetmg in Cammunian for 3 years, until the end of World War II. Shtikev's
Job was not only to teach lamiSoviet history and Leolviam-Stalinimn, but also to
work out plans to place him in a strategic position i postwar Korean politics. In
short, Shtikov's in job was to "convert" Khn Il Sung (Ueda: 12380, 1, 4499) to
Kim II. Sung (Ueda: 12880, 4446, 8610) in 3 years.
Elm is neither brilliant nor adequately educated, but he has proven himself
highly am:op:able to Stalin. The &ramose surrender 43A a goldre opportunity for
both Stalin and Kim to Communize Korea. It was at this time that Stalin ordered
Kim Sung-ju to assvme the identity of the "disappeared" General Ilia Il Sung (Ueda:
1200, 4446, 3610). In November 1945, Stalin appointed Kim Secretary-General of
the North Korea Conmunist Party and final.* designated Kim as the head of the Barth
Korea regime, with specific instructions to the leaders of that regime that there
should be no questions raised. about Kim's identity. rank mat be accepted by all
Korean CamMuniats as the famous and patriotic general who for years fought the
Japanese from the ihektu Mountains.
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