Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

by Michael Malice

Clearly, the actual answer was “whatever the United States decides.” The United States wanted to dominate Korea while the Soviet Union intended to assist her.

Finally, the US imperialists pulled one of their favorite tricks, one that they continue to use until this day. Whenever they conquered a nation and brought it into their empire, the Yanks installed some native figure as a strongman, presenting a facade of democracy and independence. This puppet would be exhibited as the duly chosen representative of his country, while at the same time being utterly and completely beholden to his American masters. In south Korea, that man was Syngman Rhee.

Yes, I became an expert at fixing machinery. But what I was most proud of is how skilled I grew at fixing my fellow children.

Flunkeyism is the tendency of a developing nation to worship more powerful countries. Flunkeyists deprecate their own nation and its achievements in the process of venerating other cultures.

The public executions began immediately after the plenum. The Party put up posters throughout Pyongyang, announcing the wonderful events. I attended each and every one of them, and from the size of the crowds it seemed as if everybody in the city was there as well. Entire families made a day of it, with the youngsters even missing school. As the class enemies met their fates, the crowd erupted in huge cheers.

The songbun system was nothing like a caste system. Instead, it was a determination of an individual’s sociopolitical standing due to the circumstances of their heredity—the complete opposite of a caste.

The United States had the Great Lakes and China had a Great Wall, but only Korea had greatness incarnated in a living being. By my university days I had grown more convinced than ever that Marshal Kim Il Sung was the ideal and greatest leader mankind had sought after. If anything, the Marshal was so great a man, so great a hero, so great a leader that the word “great” wasn’t sufficient enough.

Since a living organism separated from its brain is inconceivable, so the masses cannot be separated from the leader. And just as a living organism protects its own brain, the people must defend their leader from the attacks of all types of enemies. This isn’t a “personality cult.” This is nature.

Destroying all foreign works wasn’t an example of censorship. It was simply progress.

Any Koreans who had to venture abroad always had family left behind, to ensure their safe and loyal return. Once they came back, they spent months laboring on farms to eliminate any corrupting ideals and to always remember the value of Juche. In addition, most of those who had been educated in other countries were sent off to be reeducated in the enlightenment centers.

The seed is the essence of a work and constitutes the ideological core of how life is described. It is that which unifies the material, theme and thought into an organic correlation. It also contains within itself both the writer’s message and the elements necessary to develop the work. It is the embryo which blends an idea with artistry, and is the decisive factor determining the value of a work of art. The organic integration of plot, theme and message all emerge from the seed.

No one in the world values and loves man as I do. In Korea many anecdotes can be heard about how my love for people miraculously brought them back to life from serious illness or from critical conditions caused by accidents.

Above all, it meant accepting and downright endorsing the actions of any murderous tyrant so long as he followed the dictates of American policy. “Making the world safe for democracy” is simply a kinder, gentler version of “forcing the world to obey America.”

At a glance, I knew exactly what the papers were referring to. “Those are military installations. No country would allow such information to be made public. This is nothing more an unbearable infringement upon Korea’s sovereignty. The IAEA is making demands that we can’t possibly accede to. Tell me, has any other nation ever undergone these ‘special inspections’?”