The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden

Drawing on documents from Chinese and Russian archives about the role of Mao and Stalin in Kim's shadowy rise, as well as from never-before-released U.S. During the Korean War the United States brutally carpet bombed the North, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians and giving the Kim dynasty, as Harden reveals, the fact-based narrative it would use to this day to sell paranoia and hatred of Americans. The theft-just weeks after the Korean War ended in July 1953-electrified the world and incited Kim's bloody vengeance. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today). As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. 'From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception-and escape. Flying clear Squeezing the moolah Right stuff and fake stuff Learning and purging.

The great liberation struggle Kicked in the teeth MiGs Return to North Korea An international sporting event Attack maps and defection bribes Uncle Yoo Beginnings Poodle and pretender Sweet-talking Stalin Includes bibliographical references and index. X, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 24 cm The great leader and the fighter pilot : the true story of the tyrant who created North Korea and the young lieutenant who stole his way to freedom / Blaine Harden.

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot by Blaine Harden