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“Kim Il-sung was so confident of his position on the peninsula that he sent a secret emissary to Seoul in hopes that he could get Park to join Kim’s revolution. Though the plan did not work (Park said no in the strongest possible terms: he had the emissary executed),” quote by Victor D. Cha — Download Open image

““Kim Il-sung was so confident of his position on the peninsula that he sent a secret emissary to Seoul in hopes that he could get Park to join Kim’s revolution. Though the plan did not work (Park said no in the strongest possible terms: he had the emissary executed),””

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