Kim Il-sung person
also: Kim, Kim and the the elder, Kim in North Korea, Khem, Kim's father
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Claims (4)
Kim Il-sung member_of
Korea host_asserted
“Kim Il-sung met with Stalin to discuss Kim's desire to prod North Korea with the point of a bayonet. The book then states, unambiguously, Kim went home and then returned to Moscow when he had worked everything out. In the transcript, howeve…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 36:15
White Shirts Society attempted_assassination_of
Kim Il-sung book_quoted
“In 1944, a number of prominent assassinations and assassination attempts have been attributed to this group, including an assassination attempt on Kim Il-sung, who would have been the target of this CIA assassination attempt. That happened …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea part 3 @ 46:55
Buffalo attempted_assassination_of
Kim Il-sung host_asserted
“because he had already made it perfectly clear to the CIA and the U.S. that he was not going to be their puppet. Washington sent a Cherokee Indian codenamed Buffalo to Hans Tofte, a CIA officer stationed in Japan, after Buffalo had agreed t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Korea @ 1:02:32
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Kim Il-sung host_asserted
“He actually went to Paris with a U.S. constitution that was drafted by his former OSS officers. He was not a communist. Did we push him into the hands of the communists? Yes, we did. The same thing is with Kim's father. Kim's father was not…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy part 35 (37) @ 1:01:16
Mentions (19)
▶ 28:23
and not be occupied post-World War II. And in both Korea and Vietnam, I mean, Ho Chi Minh actually traveled to France after the war, thinking that he was going to actually negotiate and make sure that France was not coming back to Vietnam. …
▶ 49:21
They were going to in the immediate aftermath of throwing the Japanese out, they were going to have an election. The problem with the election that they were going to have is the nationalist that was in the north was going to win. Oh, and t…
▶ 36:15
Kim Il-sung met with Stalin to discuss Kim's desire to prod North Korea with the point of a bayonet. The book then states, unambiguously, Kim went home and then returned to Moscow when he had worked everything out. In the transcript, howeve…
▶ 1:02:03
jacket coral. That's what she was going to buy. There must be almost 200 dead in this tiny hamlet, unquote. The United States may have also waged germ warfare against North Korea and China, as will be discussed later. At the same time, the …
▶ 1:02:32
because he had already made it perfectly clear to the CIA and the U.S. that he was not going to be their puppet. Washington sent a Cherokee Indian codenamed Buffalo to Hans Tofte, a CIA officer stationed in Japan, after Buffalo had agreed t…
▶ 2:35
in South Korea. There is also guerrilla forces being trained by the army and the U.S. was trying to install Ri into the presidency of all of Korea because he was bought and paid for by the West. Kim Il-sung…
▶ 3:07
wasn't having any of it. He was very popular in the North, and he wanted to have one election for the entire country. Well, of course, that didn't fit into the plans because the U.S. wouldn't be in control, and they wouldn't risk allowing K…
▶ 46:01
in the North. And keep in mind, the civil administration was not Soviet because Kim had been a captured person as a colony, just like everybody else in the North. So they weren't Soviet.…
▶ 46:55
In 1944, a number of prominent assassinations and assassination attempts have been attributed to this group, including an assassination attempt on Kim Il-sung, who would have been the target of this CIA assassination attempt. That happened …
▶ 1:13:03
or eventually the Chinese communist movement. And then they went around, as I have said repeatedly, with this little laser pointer, like you torment your cat. And they took that laser pointer and pointed it on Ho Chi Minh. They took that la…
▶ 1:18:28
thinking back to one of the names you had brought up was Kim, you know, over in North Korea. I remember seeing videos of the people over there just praising and loving Kim. And knowing that what we know today, as in everything we've ever be…
▶ 1:18:59
In your personal opinion, again, not holding you to this based on the facts that you know, are we just perfecting them like we've done in the past? Well, there's so many aspects to this. There's so many layers. So, first of all, let me just…
▶ 1:23:20
All of that is a long way of saying that we set up the North to be what it is today. And we painted Kim with a communist brush when he was never a communist, which is pattern-wise exactly what we did with Cuba, which is what we did with Lum…
▶ 1:01:16
He actually went to Paris with a U.S. constitution that was drafted by his former OSS officers. He was not a communist. Did we push him into the hands of the communists? Yes, we did. The same thing is with Kim's father. Kim's father was not…
▶ 3:49
throughout the entire peninsula. Obviously, you had Khem in the north. And after the war, like most areas, the allied forces decided that they were going to have an occupation force in the north, different from an occupation force in the so…
▶ 4:18
They were not interested in actually having a unified peninsula because it's this Hegelian divide and conquer kind of philosophy. They knew from fighting the war that Kim was a unifying, and it's not at this point even an issue of communism…
▶ 6:07
because they were not going to be allowed to be part of the future of these countries, because they wanted these countries still under their thumb. So Kim immediately is going to be an enemy, a future enemy, even though we play nice with th…
▶ 8:35
initiatives OSS launched was stay behind units and specifically because they knew Kim was going to be a problem from his nationalistic viewpoint a large majority of the stay behind units in the Korean peninsula was fielded in the what we no…
▶ 15:56
constant destabilization effort to control. And when they eventually lose in Vietnam, of course, then we jump in there because it's post-1953 and we've lost the opportunity because we can't defeat Kim in the North in Korea. They are not sep…