Korean messiah Kim Il Sung and the Christian roots of North Korea's personality cult
"A landmark history of North Korea, told through the rise of the Kim Dynasty and its surprising ties to American Christianity--a spectacular, penetrating account of a world like no other. North Korea. The Hermit Kingdom. For eight decades, it has marched defiantly to its own beat, shaking off its So...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: An unexpected invitation
- Act I: The Jerusalem of the East
- Farewell to Madison
- Hermit kingdom
- Arrival
- The untamed Northwest
- The destruction of Pyongyang
- A new hope
- A new threat
- A church rises
- Act II: The bible-woman's son
- A prayer for Korea
- A Christian home
- Render unto Caesar
- Revolutionary days
- Wilsonian ideals
- Mansei
- Specter of socialism
- An education
- Ch'angdŏk days
- A father's legacy
- The Sunday school teacher
- Divine intervention
- Shintō shrines
- Act III: The sun of the nation
- A speech in Pyongyang
- A scramble for Korea
- A Moses-like leader for Korea
- A collision course
- Pastor versus church
- A church loyal to the leader
- A permanent division
- De-Stalinization
- A cult is born
- Rival faiths
- A cult without parallel
- Spreading the gospel of Kim
- Faith of a child
- Epilogue: Immortality
