“That’s wonderful,” I said, with a huge smile. General Kim Il Sung truly was the Korean General Washington. Both men were revolutionary generals who led their people to freedom and who were later unanimously voted to be their respective nations’ leaders. It saddened me that the Americans simply couldn’t bring themselves to see the General’s greatness. The Yanks thought that believing in one Great Leader was “absurd” and “crazy”—while themselves claiming that the best minds in history happened to be localized in thirteen minor Atlantic colonies at the end of the eighteenth century.
