A statue of Kim Il Sung at a Pyongyang subway station, Sept. 2018 | Image: Eric Lafforgue
Suh Dae-sook, a pioneering scholar of North Korean studies who wrote one of the most authoritative biographies of founding leader Kim Il Sung, died last week at the age of 90.
Born in Manchuria in 1931, Suh spent his childhood years in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the same place where Kim Il Sung was fighting his guerilla role against Imperial Japan.
Suh Dae-sook, a pioneering scholar of North Korean studies who wrote one of the most authoritative biographies of founding leader Kim Il Sung, died last week at the age of 90.
Born in Manchuria in 1931, Suh spent his childhood years in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, the same place where Kim Il Sung was fighting his guerilla role against Imperial Japan.
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