Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev EraConcentrating on the years 1953 64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de Stalinization. The authors principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern European archives and by recently published scholarship. Much of the story surrounds Kim