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No Kum Sok, the youngest pilot in North Korea's air force, took off from Sunan, just outside Pyongyang, on the morning of Sept. 21, 1953. Seventeen minutes later, he landed his MiG-15 at Kimpo, in the other Korea. Just as No unexpectedly delivered "the Communist world's most ferocious fighter jet" into the hands of American forces, Kim Il Sung, the regime's founder, was in Moscow wrapping up 19 fruitful days of squeezing aid from the Soviets, who had recently backed him in the inconclusive Korean War. Blaine Harden, in "The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot," weaves the story of No, the pilot, and Kim, the tyrant, into a fascinating retelling of a tale from the early years of the Cold War. There were two encounters between the men. In February 1948, 16-year-old No listened to Kim as he stood inside a warehouse and addressed his subjects. "Our workers are now mass-producing fertilizer essential for the peasants," he proclaimed. "All this proves that we can build a prosperous, independent and sovereign state by ourselves." Soon after the speech, the young No decided he would feign to be a "No. 1 Communist" so that he could survive and later escape North Korea.
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- PublisherPenguin USA
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0525428909
- ISBN 13 9780525428909
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages290
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