North Korea Undercover (37 page)

Daean Heavy Machine Complex 75–81, 99

David, Carlos 137, 138

Davis, Tommy 164

Debov, Sergei 41–2

Demick, Barbara:
Nothing To Envy
18

Derbyshire County Council 43

De Rossa, Proinsias 214

disabled people (in North Korea) 9, 75, 268–9

DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) 4, 10, 18, 46, 102–7,116, 117, 177, 179, 226, 248, 255,164

Donne, John 96
n

Donovan, Patrick 121

Doyle, John 215

Dresnok, James Gabriel (‘Gabi’) 252–3,261, 262, 263, 264

Dresnok, James Joseph 248–53, 258–64

Dresnok, Ted Ricardo 252, 262, 263

‘Dylan’ (LSE student) 17–18, 117, 127, 245

‘Eddie’ (IRA man) 201

Eisenstadt, Shmuel 68

electricity supply, North Korean 2, 60, 77–9, 84, 153

‘Elena’ (Russian woman) 209–10

elevators, North Korean 170

entrepreneurs 83,
see also
‘Jimmy the Gold Smuggler’

‘Erica’ (LSE student)59–60, 146

Everard, John xi

Only Beautiful, Please
14
and n,
46, 79, 80, 230–31

famine 5–6, 7, 27, 125–6, 138–9, 164, 170, 171, 177, 178,197, 232–9, 241

‘Fat Frankie’ (IRA man) 203–4, 226

films, North Korean 74, 190, 192, 193, 194, 249

see also Crossing the Line

Fincher, Lindsay 3
6n

Fitzpatrick, Mark 167, 290–91

Flores, Eduardo Rozsa 94
n

flower displays, North Korean 230–31

food aid 27, 239

Foster-Carter, Aidan 46

Fowles, John:
The Collector
191

Frampton, Martyn 215

Franco, General Francisco 69, 130

Frater, Alexander 30

‘Fred’ (LSE student) 228, 229, 230

Frederick, Jim 260, 264;
see also
Jenkins,

Charles Robert:
The Reluctant Communist

Frontline Club, the 146

Fujimoto, Kenji 199–200, 284, 285

Furlanis, Ermanno 239–45

Furlanis, Marilu 240–41, 243, 244

al-Gaddafi, Muammar 8, 37, 100, 117, 147, 166

al-Gaddafi, Saif 16

Galloway, George 46

Garland, Sean 201–2, 203, 207, 209–14, 216, 218–25

Gates, Bill 271

Gates Foundation 271, 272

Gause, Ken E.: ‘Coercion, Control, Surveillance and Punishment...’ 51, 188, 196, 197, 235

Gloucestershire regiment, British 113

Gorbachev, Mikhail 18

Gordon, Daniel 249, 258

see also
Bonner, Nicholas

Gorenfeld, John 191
and n
, 194

Gotautas, Gediminas
see
Levin, David gulags 4, 5, 7, 14, 27,135–9, 276–81

Hamgyong, North Korea 27

Handicap International 268

Hankyoreh
(newspaper) 53

Hanley, Brian, and Millar, Scott:
The Lost Revolution
203, 212

Harden, Blaine:
Escape from Camp 14
277, 278

Harrold, Michael 131

Hatufim
167

Hawk, David: ‘The Hidden Gulag’ 269,
276–7,
281

Henderson, Ian 160

Henderson, Maria 160

Higgins, Andrew 41

Himmler, Heinrich 189

Hines, Bruce 168

Hitchens, Christopher 22–3, 46–7, 96, 127, 147, 230

Hitler, Adolf 9, 63, 69, 115, 189, 224

Ho Chi Minh 42

Ho, Mr 207, 208

Hoe-Yeong
see
Loke, Hoe-Yeong

Holt, Vyvyan 112

Homeland
167

Honecker, Erich 37

Hong, Mr 207, 208

Ho Pong Hak, General 188

Hoxha, Enver 121, 122, 295

Mausoleum, Tirana 21

Hubbard, L Ron 164, 165

Hunter, Edward 168

Husák, Gustáv 37

Hussein, Saddam 8, 13, 19, 95, 100, 146, 190, 272

Hussein, Udai 146

Hwang Jang Yop 77–8, 79, 187–9, 213

Hwanghae Steelworks, North Korea 197

Hyesan-shi, North Korea 172

Hyok Kang:
This is Paradise!
22

Hyon Wong Wol 285, 286,287–8, 294

Hyun, Mr (minder) 2, 10, 12, 29, 35, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57–8, 76, 77, 80, 95, 97, 104–5, 127,146,148,166, 227, 228–9, 230, 246, 266, 273, 282, 292

Hyundai 25

Independent
15, 41

Inminbans (neighbourhood watches) 52

Inminboanseong (People’s Safety Agency) 279

International Friendship Exhibition 145–6, 147

internet 42–3, 50, 83, 117

IRA 201–2,215–16

Official (‘Stickies’/’Sticks’) 201–9, 225–6,
see also
Garland, Sean

Provisional 202, 203, 214

Iran 7, 13, 162,199,218, 289

Iraq 7, 13, 19–20, 95, 272

see also
Hussein, Saddam

Irish Times
213

Irish Workers’ Party 203, 204, 209, 212, 214, 216, 222, 224

Italian Communist Party (PCI) 140–43

‘Jais’ (LSE student) 148, 230

Jang Jin Soeng 197–8, 199

‘Selling My Daughter’ vii, 198

Jang Se Yul 110–11

Japan

in Manchuria 28, 61, 62

occupation of Korea 4, 8, 28,63–4,66, 67, 69, 70

relations with North Korea 103, 256, 290, 291–2

US bombing (1945) 69

Jaruzelski, Wojciech 37

Jenkins, Charles Robert 13, 250–1, 255, 257, 258, 261–2, 263

(with Jim Frederick)
The Reluctant Communist
257–9, 260–61

Jenks, Paul 94–5

Ji Seong Ho 233–4

‘Jimmy the Gold-Smuggler’ 84–93, 276

Jones, Alan 217, 219, 220, 222

Juche/Jucheism vii, 8–9, 27, 43, 44–5, 47, 82, 166, 187, 205

and time 97–9, 105–6

Jun, Miss (minder) 12, 29, 54, 56, 79, 80, 95, 97, 99–100,101, 106, 107, 111, 127, 159, 227, 228, 266

Jung Gwang Il 279–81

Kádár, János 37

Kadyrov, Ramzam 24
n

Kaesong, North Korea 116

Koryo Museum 126

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst 189–90

Kang Chol Hwan and Rigoulot, Pierre:
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
277–8

Kangso Mineral Water Plant, North Korea 52–5

KCNA
see
Korean Central News Agency

Keresztes, Laszlo 120

KFA
see
Korean Friendship Association

Khrushchev, Nikita 42, 120, 122, 142

Kidman, Nicole 168

kidnapping 5, 63, 190–93, 206, 253, 254, 255–6, 260, 264

Kim Chol 288

Kim Dae-Jung, President of South Korea 53, 186

Kim Hyun Hee 159–61

The Tears of My Soul
160

Kim Il Sung 3–4, 8, 46–7, 60, 96

and air travel 123, 141

appearance 3, 37–9, 71–2

beliefs 64–5

birth/birthday 17, 63, 98, 127

and Ceausescu 147, 149–51,152, 153, 157

childhood and youth 50, 61–2, 65–6, 130–31

comes to power 70–72, 245

death 4, 63

and electricity supply 78

and famine 125–6, 138–9, 232

and foreign relations 154

introduces class system 25

and IRA and Sinn Fein members 205, 206, 213–14, 215

and Italian Communist Party delegation 141–3

and Japanese occupation of Korea 66–8

and Jucheism 8, 97–8

and Kim Jong Il 69, 183, 185, 187–8

and Korean War 7, 8, 63, 111–13, 118, 184

last years 182, 196–7

in Manchuria 47, 62, 255

and Mao 37, 128–9, 147

Mausoleum and embalmed corpse 4, 35–7, 40, 42–3, 78

name 66

and ‘on-the-spot guidance’ 55, 231, 267

parents 64, 65

personality 45, 62–3, 68, 143–4, 185, 187–8

personality cult4, 44–5, 63, 120, 121, 185

portraits 1, 31, 36–7, 56–7, 77, 176, 230, 231–2, 247, 270

purges of enemies 118–19, 123–4 128–9

and Stalin 4, 8, 29, 37, 47, 68, 111–12, 120, 121, 124

statues 20, 36, 55–6, 116, 147, 162–3, 172, 176, 246, 267

train journeys 40, 123, 245

Kim Jong Chol 284

Kim Jong Il 1, 46–7, 242–3

appearance 182–3, 186

biography
see
Breen, Michael

birth 67, 68–9, 85, 127, 183

childhood 183–4

death 8, 200, 285, 287

drug addiction 200

and electricity shortages 78–9

embalmed corpse 4, 5, 35–6, 40, 42

and famine 5–6, 7, 232–3

fear of triplets 268

and foreign relations 154

and Hwang Jang Yop 27

internet access 42–3

and Jang Jin Sung 197–9

and Kaltenbrunner as role model 189–90

kidnappings 190–93, 255–6

and Kim Hyun Hee 160–61

and Kim Il Sung 69,120–21, 183, 185, 187–8

and Kimilsungism 8–9

love of fine food and drink 199–200

and murder of brother 183–4

and nuclear weapons 182, 236, 238

personality 5, 53–4, 182–3, 186, 188–9, 191–2, 193–4, 195–6, 199

plots against 196, 197

portraits 1–2, 56–7, 77, 148, 176, 231–2, 247, 270

purges of enemies 184, 197

runs Bowibu (Korean Security Department) 51, 184

statues 163, 172

succession 184–6

suffers stroke 200

Ten Principles
vii

and women 5, 188–9, 196

Kim Jong Il Museum of Gifts, near Pyongyang 145–7, 148

Kim Jong Nam 283–4

Kim Jong Suk 67, 69, 183, 184

Kim Jong Un 2, 31, 51, 52, 93, 100

appearance 2, 9, 282

brutality 285–8

education 9, 283

and Fujimoto 199, 284, 284

name 99

portraits 247

as teenager 285

threatens thermo-nuclear war 2–3, 10, 18–19, 107, 108, 116, 247, 290–91

Kim Kwang Hyop 188

Kim Man Kum 236

Kim Seong Cheol 279

Kim Yong (with Kim Suk-Young):
Long Road Home
235–6, 277, 278

Kim Yong Sun 214, 224

‘Kimilsungism’ 8–9, 44–5, 166, 213, 262

‘Kimism’ 47, 68

Kirkby, Michael 7

KITC
see
Korean International Travel Company

Kochibis
238

Koestler, Arthur:
Darkness At Noon
167

Koizumi, Junichiro 256

Korea

Chosun dynasty 25

division 69–70

founding myth 24

Koryo dynasty 25

see also
Korean War; South Korea

Korean Air Flight 858, bombing of 160, 253

Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) 211, 214, 225

Korean Friendship Association (KFA) 14–15

Korean International Travel Company (KITC) 2 video 49, 50, 158, 159, 245, 292

Korean People’s Army 113, 170, 177–8, 250, 275–6

Sixth Army Corps 197

Korean War (1950–53) 4, 7, 8, 72, 111–16, 118, 167, 184, 251–2

Korean Workers’ Party 44, 47–8, 65, 101, 120, 123, 142, 197, 241

Sixth Congress 186

Koryo Tours 12–13, 248–9

Kuomintang, the 70

Kwan-Li-So (prison) 276, 277

Kwon, Jang Ho 92–3, 176–7, 179, 293, 296

Kyo-Hwa-So (prison) 276

Lameda, Ali 129–39, 278, 294

‘Pieta’ vii, 138, 139

Lankov, Andrei 280–1

From Stalin to Kim Il Sung
3
and n,
17, 67, 70, 118–19, 123

The Real North Korea 7n
, 72
and n,
112
and n
, 233, 284

Larkin, Philip 182

Lawn, Declan 216–17

Lee Dae Sik 53–4

Lee Jun Ha 89–90

Lee Myung Bak, President of South Korea 54

‘Len’ (IRA man) 201–9, 214, 225–6, 262

Lenin, Vladimir I.41, 42, 184

Lermontov, Mikhail: lullaby 24

Levin, David 217–18, 219, 220–21, 222

Leyden, Professor Wolfgang von 295

‘Liam’ 209–11,214, 224

Libya 8, 117, 166, 289

see also
Gaddafi, Muammar (al-)

Lifton, Professor Robert Jay:
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
11, 167–9, 180–81

Loke, Hoe-Yeong 48, 57, 126, 266, 295

London School of Economics 15–17, 48–9

Lukashenka, President Alexander 19, 221

Macaluso, Emanuele 140, 141–3, 231

MacArthur, General Douglas 112–13

Macchia, Antonio 240–45

Mac Giolla, Tomás 213

MacLochlainn, Gerry 214–15

The Irish Republican and Juche Conception of National Self-Dignity are One
215

Manchuria 61–3, 65, 67, 68, 71, 124, 255

Mao Tse-tung 63, 70, 113, 128, 163, 168

embalming of 41, 42

and Kim Il Sung 37, 128–9, 147, 163

Marcos, Ferdinand 42

Martin, Bradley K.:
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
22, 63
n,
124

Marxism-Leninism 47, 64, 65, 166

‘Mary Lou’ 170–75, 272–3

Millar, Scott
see
Hanley, Brian

Mircioiu, Georgeta 156

Mirsky, Jonathan 170

mobile phones 117, 293

Moore, Christy 222

Moranbong Band 285–6 Moscow

KGB/FSB head office 21

Lenin’s embalmed corpse 41

GUM 209–10

Oktoberskaya Hotel 209

Mount Kumgang tourist resort, North Korea 54

Mugabe, Robert 96

Muggeridge, Malcolm 234

Mun Kyong Jin 285

Myers, Professor Brian 19, 39, 68, 108–9

The Cleanest Race
24, 45, 47, 48, 55, 68

Nam Il 188

names, Korean xi, 26

Natsios, Andrew 236–7, 239

The Great North Korean Famine
237–8, 239

Nazi party 9, 12, 45, 46, 48, 69, 140, 189–90, 224, 237, 295

New York Times
220

Newson, Tomiko 49, 148, 267, 268, 295

Niakaris, Alex 49, 59–60, 96, 97, 104, 107, 164, 292, 295

NK News
212, 271

NKPLF
see
North Korean People’s Liberation Front

Noble, Harold 118, 119 North

Korean People’s Liberation Front (NKPLF) 20, 110, 111

nuclear weapons 103, 182, 236, 238

see also under
Kim Jong Un

Obama, President Barack 289

Obiang, Teodoro 37

Observer
30, 121

Om, Mr 240, 241, 243

Orascom mobile phones 117, 293

Orwell, George 46, 124

Animal Farm
159, 293

1984
2, 5–6, 31, 158, 163, 169, 293