>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb at jmu.edu> 05/26/00 11:57AM >>>
Charles,
The leaders of the US are nowhere near being in the league of the late Kim Il Sung.
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CB: When you say not in the league, do you mean not as good or not as bad ?
Your leaders are the leading world criminals. The mass murder in Iraq alone makes them worse than Kim Il Sung. But that is not counting the war on Korea itself, which makes those American leaders the worse criminals IN KOREA iteself in this era.
It is clearcut that the US ruling class are more monomanical dictators than Kim ll Sung .
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His son is another story and a bit more mysterious.
BTW, there is a lot of controversy about the details of the life of the old man. Some in the ROK claim that he was a phoney, that the real anti-Japanese leader of the 1930s died. Of course, his official biographies had him almost singlehandedly driving the Japanese from Korea and leading all kinds of victorious battles in the USSR during WW II. The most reliable evidence suggests that he rode into Korea in a Soviet tank. But, he did have sufficient local support that he did not need the Soviets to maintain him in power. Barkley Rosser--