57 years ago, on April 19, 1960, the rule of the first South Korean president Lee Sung-man (known better under Westernised version of his name Syngman Rhee) came to an end. His attempt to falsify the elections of Vice-President caused South Korea to erupt, and Lee fled the country.

A country after a revolution is unstable, and this fully applied to South Korea of 1960: a poor country with a neighbor openly wanting to annex it.

This looked like a good opportunity for Kim Il Sung, and in this article I am going to present a few documents from the