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Chargement... Le grand leader et le pilote (2015)par Blaine Harden
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I came to this book with only the most basic understanding of the Korean War and while this book's mission is not to retell that story in detail, I do feel I have a better understanding of how the dictator Kim Il Sung came to power and the kind of culture he created in North Korea, which apparently still persists today. I also had no idea that a North Korean pilot had defected to the south by landing a MiG at an American air base, but it certainly made for an exciting story! Overall, this was a good read and excellent for understanding how North Korea came to be what it is today. This doesn't have the drama of Hillenbrand's Unbroken but the story of No Kum Sok's defection from North Korea in a Soviet MiG-15 showcases the same kind of courage and resilience. It presents a good overview of the brutal dictatorship of Kim Il Sung and the atrocities committed by both sides during the Korean War. Overall, very informative and inspirational. I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads program. I've read several books about North Korea in the last couple of years and this one fit nicely with them. It gave me lots of information about the rise of Kim Il Sung and his rise to power with the willing aid of Stalin and the less willing aid of Mao, and the story of No Kum Suk who, with his family, had to suffer though Kim Il Sung despotism and No Kum Suk's eventual escape to the U. S. Air Force. A fast, well written and instructive read. Parallel stories of the rise and rise of Kim Il Sung from shabby guerrilla to unchallenged despot of the most brutal and secretive regime on earth, and one of his young air force pilots, No Kum Sok, who for years concealed a deep hatred of Communism under a cloak of excessive patriotism and party loyalty while dreaming of the day he could fly his MiG15 over the South Korean border to freedom. No's flight caused a sensation in the west and considerable embarrassment for the US, who had promised $100000 for the first Red pilot to deliver a MiG to them, only to discover that No had never heard of the reward and didnt particularly want it anyway. How this young man planned and undertook his desperate flight and how he constructed a new life for himself in the US is a terriffic tale of determination and desire for freedom, contrasted with the utterly sordid rise of Kim Il Sung through unparalleled ruthlessness and brutality, adept political skills and an uncanny ability to bounce back from near disaster, aided by copious fawning to his Chinese and Russian masters even while he was outwitting them. Really good demonstration of the best and worst of human nature, as well a good adventure story. Great stuff. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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No Kum Sok a 16 ans en 1948. Issu d'une famille aisee, tres americanophile, il espere etudier l'anglais et se rendre aux Etats-Unis. Oui mais voila: Truman et Staline se partagent le pays; No vit au Nord, son reve s'envole, il integre une academie navale. Guerillero contre l'envahisseur japonais, puis chinois, Kim Il Sung est un petit militaire sans charisme apparent, neanmoins dote d'un ego demesure et d'une capacite infinie a transformer ses echecs en victoires et ses incompetences en actes heroiques. Une qualite aux yeux de Staline qui va se servir de lui pour asseoir sa propagande et en faire un heros de la resistance. Mais l'eleve va bientot depasser le maitre: fort de ses reves de grandeur, Kim Il Sung souhaite envahir le Sud, contre l'avis de Staline. Qu'a cela ne tienne, l'appui viendra de Mao, les armes, elles, resteront russes. Contre toute attente, les Americains repliquent, c'est le debut de la Guerre de Coree. No, lui, devient pilote de chasse sur les MiG dangereux et mal equipes. Force de jouer la comedie du communiste fanatique, il n'a bientot plus qu'une seule idee en tete: passer au Sud, du cote des Americains. Et pendant ce temps, Kim Il Sung laisse libre cours a sa megalomanie galopante... " Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It's also a disturbing story. In the mid 1940s, teachers began instilling a disturbing mantra into children, the new members of the Korean Democratic Youth League: "There is no God, no mystery, no secrets of life. Everyone can know everything."
Is that similar to what "new" atheists would have us believe 75 years later? ( )