Words can't really describe what a let down this book was for me. The material in here was, somehow, selected from the least interesting possible subset of a generally uninteresting Kim corpus.
A decent collection of writings of Kim Il Sung.Some interviews by Iraqi press, and other writings dealing with internal government.
"On the establishment of the Worker's Party of North Korea and the question of founding the Worker's Party of South Korea"
In reality two essays, one celebrating the merger of two worker's parties in the DPRK that reasserts the purpose of the party (something the US has yet to prove) and prescribing the future of the worker's party in ROK. "A party is not a party for its own sake, but a weapon necessary for achieving the aims of a certain class" Kim states, and its hard to disagree given the way Kim weaves prescriptive ideology with people's history, if perhaps less brilliantly than his Russian and Chinese counterparts.
Probably the most widely known piece of literature from the formerly communist-esq North Korea.
He writes with great passion for his country, and it gives the best insight into where the North Koreans are coming from in terms of their political positions being a reaction to US aggression and imperialism.
