ID | 183410 |
Title Proper | North Korean narrative on the second world war |
Other Title Information | why the change? |
Language | ENG |
Author | Tertitskiy, Fyodor K |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper studies North Korea’s official narrative on the Second World War. The country is extremely autocratic, meaning that the only allowed vision is the one prescribed by the state. This vision was initially imprinted by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. However, the official narrative on the Soviet-Japanese War, which led to the establishment of the North Korean state, has been rewritten: today Pyongyang credits Japan’s defeat to Kim Il-sung and his “Korean People’s Revolutionary Army”—an organization which never existed in reality. This article traces the evolution of the North Korean false narrative and concludes that each of its pages was farther away from historical truth than the previous one. |
`In' analytical Note | Russia in Global Affairs Vol. 19, No.4; Oct-Dec 2021: p.164-183 |
Journal Source | Russia in Global Affairs Vol: 19 No 4 |
Key Words | Historical Memory ; Second World War ; Kim Il-Sung ; Korean People’s Revolutionary Army ; Distortion of History ; Soviet-Japanese War |