Kim Il Sung and the creation of North Korea

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

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4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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How the cult of the Kim family turned North Korea into a dynastic Communist dictatorship, where public displays of love for the leader are compulsory and laughing at his haircut is not recommended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History, the serious academic podcast that's recommended by historians around the world.
0:14.0	Oh shit, I think I'm on the wrong podcast.
0:16.1	Oh dear. I'm John O'Farrow and that potty mouth, the complice was Angela Barnes.
0:22.4	You know what I say to people who call me potty mouth, John?
0:25.6	What?
0:26.2	Get fucked. There we are. Look out. We've opened it. Listen, this is a new
0:30.4	territory for me. I'm usually really well behaved on this podcast.
0:34.5	I load this up. I have to do a box explicit or non-explicit. I have to put the
0:38.1	little E for explicit on this one now. We're only 10, we're only one minute in. Not even that.
0:44.2	Oh God. So this is we do. That's the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation. We are doing this down the line.
0:53.1	We're doing it remotely.
0:57.5	We're 70 miles apart, whatever the distance is.
0:58.9	Angela sends me a little invite.
1:00.8	Today it said, Zoom.
1:02.3	She had about 10-0s, and I thought,
1:03.3	a Fat Larry's band.
1:04.7	Oh, yeah.
1:08.8	Do you know, I said that to some writers I was working with on news quiz, but they were all under 30 and they just looked blankly at me.
1:11.5	And I was like, oh, never mind.
1:12.4	That's all my jokes these days.
1:14.6	What are we talking about today, Angela?
1:16.7	It's a bit of a hefty one.
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