North Korea caught erasing former leader’s Russian heritage

nknews.org 26 Aug

North Korea

A recent investigation into a decades-old children’s poem authored by a young Kim Jong Il provides evidence that the former North Korean leader was called by his Russian-derived childhood name Kim Yu Ra, which Pyongyang has spent decades trying to erase from history. Long before the world knew him as Kim Jong Il, the former […]

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North Korea caught erasing former leader’s Russian heritage

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