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Business Insider: Photos over 70 years show how North Korea's Kim family went from starving guerilla fighters to going toe-to-toe with Trump
* The North Korean state has defied all the odds and constant forecasts of its impending doom to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding on September 9, 2018.
* North Korea has a dark and tortured history going back millennia as regional powers like China and Japan have sought to dominate it.
* The story of North Korea really is the story of the Kim dynasty founded by Kim Il Sung in response to Japanese colonization of Korea and its attempts to beat and break Korean identity.
* In this slideshow, follow the harrowing story of the often brutal Kim family and how they came from starving guerilla fighters to stand toe to toe with President Donald Trump.
September 9, 2018 marks 70 years of the small, impoverished state of North Korea defying major world powers to exist as a bastion of Korean identity and revolutionary, and often brutal politics.
North Korea's story begins in earnest with the Kim family that would become the stuff of legends and propaganda alike. Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and now Kim Jong Un have proven wrong seven decades of US leaders who bet on their spectacular demise, with 2018 emerging as a banner year.
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Update #1: N. Korean military parades: Propaganda, intimidation, unity (FOX News/AP)
Update #2: North Korea at 70: How the personality cult of Kim Il-sung shaped a nation (Joe Sommerlad, The Independent)
WNU Editor: 70 years of suffering.
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