Suh Dae-sook

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Suh Dae-sook
Hangul
서대숙
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSeo Daesuk
McCune–ReischauerSŏ Tae-suk
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Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 – 13 September 2022)

University of Hawaii.[4]

Suh was born in what is now North Korea, and defected to the South in 1946.[3] He worked as an interpreter during the Korean War, and left to study abroad in the United States at Texas Christian University in 1952.[3]

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis Korean Communism and the rise of Kim.[5] He also later worked as a researcher there.[3] In 1989, he was a visiting professor at Seoul National University. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as the Yongjae Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University.[3]

He was best known for the books Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, published by Columbia University Press and considered the best work on the early life of Kim Il Sung,[1] and The Korean Communist Movement.[6] His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German.[citation needed]

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