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The Kim family's dark and surreal story provides a fresh perspective on a nation ruled for more than seven decades by one dynasty.
With North Korea's relations with the rest of the world at a new and unpredictable inflection point, National Geographic Documentary Films presents INSIDE NORTH KOREA'S DYNASTY, a groundbreaking four-episode documentary series that examines the extraordinary history of the world's only communist dynasty, three generations in the making.
Nov 11, 2018 · Watch full episodes of Inside North Korea's Dynasty online. Get sneak peeks and free episodes all on Nat Geo TV.
Nov 11, 2018 · “Inside North Korea’s Dynasty” concludes with Kim Jong Un’s summit with President Trump, a diplomatic coup that eluded his father and grandfather.
- Kim Il-Sung: Guerrilla Leader Or Imposter?
- Kim Il-Sung's Rise to Power and Failed Invasion
- Kim Jong-Il: A Spoiled Little Monster?
- Kim Jong-Un: Educated in Switzerland
Kim Il-sung, the most respected of the Kim dynasty, is credited with a playing a key role in liberating Korea during World War II before he came to power. The official story is that he single-handedly defeated the Japanese in North Korea. But is that right? We know that he was born Kim Song-ju, that his parents were anti-Japanese, that he moved to ...
In October 1945, when the Soviet Union presented their Kim Il-sung to North Korea, people were surprised by how young he was. "They said, 'Who was this guy with the Chinese waiter's haircut? We heard about the great general Kim Il-sung, but this guy looks much too young and callow to be he'," Mr Myers said. A huge Soviet propaganda campaign followe...
Compared to his father, Kim Jong-il was shorter, with an unprepossessing appearance, and not particularly extroverted, said Mr Myers. "Early film footage showed him to be so disengaged from what was happening around him," he said. Mr Martin said Kim Jong-il was raised as a "totally spoiled little monster, part of a clique of ruling class princeling...
When Kim Jong-il died suddenly of a heart attack in 2011, his third son, Kim Jong-un, assumed power. Mr Myers said they needed to pick somebody from inside his family, because so much of the legitimacy of the state still derived from the myth of Kim Il-sung. "When you take Kim Il-sung out of the propaganda mythical landscape, there's really nothing...
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first ...
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Viewers will be immersed in the family's dark and surreal story, bringing a fresh perspective on a nation ruled for over seven decades by one dynasty. Understand the family, and you understand how this country works.
