As a long time foreign correspondent, I've worked in lots of places, but nowhere is important

to the world as China. I'm Jane Perlaz, former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times.

Join me on my new podcast, Face Off, US versus China,

where I'll take you behind the scenes in the tumultuous US-China relationship.

Find face-off wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. What's up guys? What's up guys?

Welcome to another episode of Bro history.

It's Henry Zamoda and Danny Abdel Jabbar.

What's up man?

How are you? Chilli man.

As per usual, how about yourself?

I'm doing pretty well. On this episode we're going to talk about... As per usual, how about yourself?

I'm doing pretty well.

On this episode, we're going to talk about South Korea

and the rise of Sigmund Marie.

Danny, why don't you recap our last episode for us real quick just so people...

For sure, yeah, so on last episode we basically spoke about the rise of Kim Il Sun, the

first leader of North Korea, So quick bullet points on that.

He was born in the north with the name Kim Songju.

His family ends up moving to Manchuria

for questionable reasons, and he spent most of his time in China and barely

spoke Korean because of that.

He ends up skipping out on school to join some communist groups and he gets a little bit of notoriety

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