How did North Korea end up having Kim Il Sung as its leader...

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In short there were four factions in 1940s korea:
The "partisans": Kim il sungs lot
The yanan faction: pro chinese, fought with mao during 1930s
The soviet koreans: Koreans from the USSR who often served in the army and were deployed there post 1945.
The domestic group: resistance fighters, worked with broader nat movement, ran cells in south.
What happened is that the civic group died in the korean war as they ran rebellion ops in the south or just after as they were the easiest to purge. After the war the yanan clique and moscovites tried to overthrow kim (with soviet and chinese backing): who was running a family regime at this point, and failed. They were counter purged and boom: Kim domination.
Further reading: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Faction_Incident
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Hon-yong

Eh it is common for multi ethnic entities, russian has seperate words for an ethnic russian and someone from russia: you can be the former without being the later and vice versa.

Jucheists and their sophistry are worse than anarcjo-capitalists.

Thank you. This is what I was looking for

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I see this is the newest buzzword in reddit.

Before WW2, it was completely normal for countries to be racially homogenous and to want to keep it that way. North Korea didn't change, the west did.

[Laughs in kresly]