Kim Il-sung bibliography
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Plays↙ | 2 |
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Total number of works↙ | 10,800 |
Important works↙ | 60 |
Autobiography↙ | 8 |
Complete Works↙ | 100 |
Collected Works↙ | 50 |
Selected Works↙ | 15 |
References and footnotes |
Kim Il-sung (15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the leader of North Korea for 46 years, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.
According to North Korean sources, the works of Kim Il-sung amount to approximately 10,800 speeches, reports, books, treatises and other types of works.[1] As of 1980, about 60 of them are considered to be particularly important by outside observers.[2]
Kim Il-sung's works are published and republished in countless collections.[3] These include the 100-volume Complete Works of Kim Il-sung (chŏnjip),[4] the 50-volume Collected Works (chŏjakchip) and the 15-volume Selected Works (sŏnjip).[5] In North Korea, his works are published by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House,[6] but front organizations Japan publish unofficial Korean-language editions as well.[7] North Korean sources say that publishing houses in 110 countries have published works of Kim Il-sung in translations in some 60 languages.[8]
The earliest work in the Enlarged Edition of Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works is from October 1926.[9] By the time of Kim's death, the collections had ballooned to unpractical sizes with even the Selected Works "too long and costly to be used in group study, the only kind the regime felt safe in encouraging" and the Collected Works "unfit to any propaganda purpose except to lead awed schoolchildren past". With more electricity and leisure time, too, such enormous collections were no longer popular.[10]
All writings from before the time Kim returned to North Korea (19 September 1945) are considered to be unhistorical.[11][12] There is no historical record of them from the purported time period and they only began to appear in the 1970s.[11] It is evident from both their contents written to support later viewpoints in North Korean politics, and the style of writing characteristic to Kim in his later years, that they have been written much later, specifically in the late 1960s to early 1970s.[11] For instance, , dated to December 1931, discusses little-known labor strikes in Korea far away from Kim's whereabouts in Manchuria that a young and uneducated guerrilla would unlikely to have known about due to Japanese censorship.[11] Another particularly egregious example dated 1 June 1937, called , stipulates that the Japanese are forcibly drafting Koreans to invade China and ultimately join WWII, when these did not take place until July 1937 and December 1941, respectively.[13] They do, however, bear reassemble to his written style.[14] This is also true of his later works, with only a handful of pieces that appear to have been ghostwritten for him.[15] Suh Dae-sook attributes the lack of a ghostwriter to an identifiable writing style that has consistently matured and the fact that few of his subordinates have lasted in North Korean politics for such a long period of time without being subject to purges.[16] Occasionally, Kim is given notes on technical subjects, but both the policies and texts are of his own making.[17]
Many of the later writings, too have gone through edition in subsequent publications to match the political situation, typically by removing references to the roles of the Soviet Union and China in early North Korean politics,[18] and by removing names of purged officials.[19]
The English editions, published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, as Kim Il-sung Works, Kim Il-sung Selected Works, and Kim Il-sung Complete Works have reached volume 50, eight, and seven, respectively.[20][21] Volume seven of Selected Works was never published in English.[20]
Kim was most prolific when writing about the North Korean economy, but his most impactful works tend to be on the management of the Workers' Party of Korea. He did not write as much on international relations, of the Korean reunification, save for "constant and perfunctory" references in his many speeches. The military of North Korea is also underrepresented in his writings, although many additional works pertaining to it might exist but be restricted.[2] Kim's 1967 speech in the aftermath of the Kapsan Faction Incident, is considered one of his most important ones, but remains likewise restricted.[22]
According to Myers, Kim Il-sung's cult of personality was consciously trying to match that of Mao Zedong. Thus when Mao was renowned for his poetry, the North Koreans matched this by claiming that Kim Il-sung had written plays during the anti-Japanese struggle of the 1930s.[23] Two plays that were allegedly written by Kim Il-sung are The Sea of Blood[24] and The Flower Girl.[25] Nonetheless, Kim Il-sung also wrote poems,[26][27] such as one called "Brightest Star", written in 1992 to congratulate Kim Jong-il on behalf of the latter's birthday.[26] Kim Il-sung also wrote song lyrics.[28] Official North Korean history also attributes operas to Kim. Sometimes Kim is attributed with writing the scripts of operas and plays directly, and at other times for providing the actual authors with the plots.[29]
Kim delivered a New Year Address since 1 January 1946. Although the tradition was likely copied from the Soviet Union, North Korea made one important distinction. In the Soviet Union, the speech was always delivered by the formal head of state instead of Stalin who held real power. Since the North Korean state had not been organized by 1946, the task fell on Kim as the head of the North Korea Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea . The speech has been delivered by the supreme leader of North Korea instead of the formal head of state ever since, making it an important policy speech identified with the leader personally.[30]
With the Century, Kim Il-sung's eight-volume autobiography written shortly before his death, is his most popular work among North Korean readership.[3]
Bibliography[]
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Works[]
Date | Title | Notes |
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17 October 1926 | ||
December 1931 | ||
25 April 1932 | ||
29 March 1937 | ||
1 June 1937 | ||
4 June 1937 | ||
20 August 1945 | ||
17 December 1945 | ||
8 February 1946 | ||
15 February 1946 | ||
10 April 1946 | ||
20 June 1946 | ||
29 July 1946 | ||
29 August 1946 | ||
26 September 1946 | [1] | |
19 February 1947 | ||
15 March 1947 | ||
15 August 1947 | ||
6 February 1948 | ||
8 February 1948 | ||
28 March 1948 | ||
10 September 1948 | ||
1 February 1949 | ||
9 September 1949 | ||
26 June 1950 | ||
21 December 1950 | ||
1 November 1951 | ||
4 April 1952 | ||
15 December 1952 | ||
5 August 1953 | ||
20 December 1953 | ||
3 November 1954 | ||
3 November 1954 | ||
April 1955 | ||
1 April 1955 | ||
1 April 1955 | ||
4 April 1955 | ||
28 December 1955 | On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work | [2] |
23 April 1956 | ||
5 December 1957 | ||
6 March 1958 | ||
6 March 1958 | ||
29 April 1958 | ||
11 June 1958 | ||
5 January 1959 | ||
4 September 1959 | ||
4 December 1959 | ||
23 February 1960 | ||
11 September 1961 | ||
18 December 1961 | ||
8 March 1962 | ||
23 October 1962 | ||
8 February 1963 | ||
25 February 1964 | Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country | |
15 May 1964 | ||
23 June 1964 | ||
14 April 1965 | ||
10 October 1965 | ||
5 October 1966 | ||
18 October 1966 | ||
25 May 1967 | ||
25 May 1967 | ||
16 December 1967 | ||
27 May 1968 | ||
7 September 1968 | ||
1 March 1969 | ||
2 November 1970 | ||
25 September 1971 8 October 1971 |
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11 October 1971 | [3] | |
2 December 1971 | ||
17 September 1972 | ||
25 December 1972 | ||
1 February 1973 | ||
21 February 1973 | ||
23 June 1973 | ||
25 June 1973 | On the Five-point Policy for National Reunification | |
10 January 1974 | ||
24 September 1974 | ||
29 November 1974 | ||
3 March 1975 | ||
31 May 1975 | ||
9 October 1975 | ||
29 April 1977 | ||
29 April 1977 | ||
5 September 1977 | ||
15 December 1977 | ||
10 October 1980 | ||
20 June 1986 | [4] | |
29 April 1991 | [5] | |
6 April 1993 | 10 Point Programme for the Great Unity of the Whole Nation for the Reunification of the Country | [6] |
1992–1996 | With the Century | [7] |
Collections[]
Date | Title | Notes |
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1971 | Revolution and Socialist Construction in Korea: Selected Writings of Kim Il Sung | |
1972 | The Selected Works of Kim Il Sung: Volumes 1 - 5 Juche! The Speeches and Writings of Kim Il Sung |
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1975 | For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of Korea On Juche in Our Revolution | |
2001 | For an Independent World | published posthumously |
2003 | For the Independent, Peaceful Reunification of the Country | published posthumously |
2011 | The Selected Works of Kim Il-sung | [8] published posthumously |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "6. Immortal classical works written by President Kim Il Sung". Naenara. May 2008. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Suh 1981, p. 11.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lim 2015, p. 28.
- ^ ""Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works" Off Press". KCNA. January 18, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ^ Ruediger Frank (October 22, 2013). "The North Korean Tablet Computer Samjiyon: Hardware, Software and Resources — A 38 North Product Review by Ruediger Frank" (PDF). 38 North. p. 15. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ^ Yonhap News Agency, Seoul (27 December 2002). North Korea Handbook. M.E. Sharpe. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-7656-3523-5.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 8.
- ^ "7. Over 110 Countries Published President Kim Il Sung's Classic Works in Their National Languages". naenara.com.kp. July 2008. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
- ^ "Enlarged Edition of 'Complete Collection of Kim Il Sung's Works' Vol. 1 Published". KCNA. 13 April 2017. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017.
- ^ Myers 2015, p. 187.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Suh 1981, p. 9.
- ^ Martin, Bradley K. (2004). Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-312-32322-6.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 23.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 1.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 14.
- ^ Suh 1981, pp. 12, 14.
- ^ Suh 1981, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 3.
- ^ Suh 1981, p. 4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Korea Publications Exchange Association catalogue (PDF). . 2011. pp. 8–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014.
- ^ "Kim Il Sung Complete Works Volume 07". north-korea-books.com. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
- ^ Tertitskiy, Fyodor (24 May 2017b). "The 1967 speech that set North Korean totalitarianism in stone". NK News. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Myers, B.R. (February 11, 2010). Book Discussion on The Cleanest Race. C-SPAN.org. Event occurs at 4:20-5:00. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ^ Schönherr 2012, p. 46.
- ^ Schönherr 2012, p. 49.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Lim 2015, p. 95.
- ^ Hokkanen, Jouni (2013). Pohjois-Korea: Siperiasta itään (in Finnish). Helsinki: Johnny Kniga. p. 216. ISBN 978-951-0-39946-0.
- ^ "Song lyrics by President Kim Il Sung". naenara.com.kp. Archived from the original on 2016-02-21. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
- ^ Kim 2018, p. 159.
- ^ Tertitskiy, Fyodor (29 December 2017). "How to interpret Kim Jong Un's New Year's address". NK News. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
Works cited[]
- Suk-Yong Kim (2018). "Dead Father's Living Body: Kim Il-sung's Seed Theory and North Korean Arts". In Kaminskij, Konstantin; Koschorke, Albrecht (eds.). Tyrants Writing Poetry. Budapest: Central European University Press. pp. 157–167. ISBN 978-963-386-202-5.
- Lim, Jae-Cheon (24 March 2015). Leader Symbols and Personality Cult in North Korea: The Leader State. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-56741-7.
- Myers, Brian (2006). "The Watershed That Wasn't: Re-evaluating Kim Il Sung's 'Juche Speech' of 1955". Acta Koreana. 9 (1): 89–115. ISSN 1520-7412.
- — (2015). North Korea's Juche Myth. Busan: Sthele Press. ISBN 978-1-5087-9993-1.
- O'Carroll, Chad; Myers, B.R. (2013). Interview with B.R. Myers: pt. 1, "North Korea's Juche Myth". SoundCloud. NK News. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- Schönherr, Johannes (13 August 2012). North Korean Cinema: A History. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6526-2.
- Suh, Dae-Sook (1981). Korean Communism, 1945–1980: A Reference Guide to the Political System. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-0740-5.
Further reading[]
- Kang, Kwang-Shick (2001). "Juche Idea and the alteration process in Kim Il-Sung's works: A study on how to read Kim Il-Sung's works" (PDF). In Cho, Young-A (ed.). Korean studies at the dawn of the Millennium: Proceedings of the Second Biennial Conference, Korean Studies Association of Australasia, hosted by Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia, 24-25 September 2001. Melbourne: Korean Studies Association of Australasia. pp. 363–374. ISBN 978-0-9579595-0-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2006.
- "Kim Il-sung". Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television and Other Fields. 174. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7876-2666-2.
External links[]
Library resources |
By Kim Il-sung |
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- Works by Kim Il-sung at Publications of the DPRK
- Books and articles at Korean Friendship Association
- Audio excerpts at Voice of Korea
- Kim Il-sung at the Marxists Internet Archive
- Documents by Kim Il-sung at Wilson Center Digital Archive
- Works by Kim Il-sung
- Bibliographies by writer
- Communist books