Kim Hong-il (general)
Kim Hong-il (23 September 1898 – 8 August 1980) was a Korean independence activist and a general of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Korean War, who later became a diplomat and politician in South Korea. Born in North Pyongan, he did his early schooling in China and Korea, and had a brief career as a teacher before his connections with the nascent Korean independence movement led to his imprisonment. He fled into exile in China in 1918, and served in the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1926 to 1948, following which he moved to the newly-independent South Korea to join the Republic of Korea Army. He commanded South Korea's I Corps during the first year of the Korean War, and was then sent to Taipei as South Korea's ambassador to the Republic of China, which by then had retreated to Taiwan. His assignment there ultimately lasted nine years. He returned to South Korea in 1960 following the April Revolution which ended the rule of Syngman Rhee, and served briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Park Chung-hee junta. He ran for the National Assembly, first unsuccessfully in 1960 and 1963, and was then elected in 1967 and became a major figure in the opposition New Democratic Party.
Kim Jong-un bibliography
On 15 April 2012, the centenary of the birth of North Korea's first leader Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un made his first major public speech, entitled "Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun". At least two works predate this speech. "To All the Service Personnel and People Who Deeply Mourned the Death of Comrade" is dated 26 March. Kim published "Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party" shortly before the 11 April , which conferred on Kim Jong-il the posthumous title "Eternal General Secretary". "The Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People", also from 2012 and probably ghostwritten, runs through the achievements of both Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung in a "panegyric" fashion.