Chabad rabbi Meir Alfasi in North Korea, in what was dubbed the first Chabadnik in the Communist state.. Courtesy of Meir Alfasi
This is the story of a family of Russian Jews, two members of which played a role in the formation of what would later become the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea.
Kim Il-sung, the first supreme leader of North Korea—and the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong-un—led the Communist totalitarian dictatorship between its founding in 1948 and his death in the summer of 1994.
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