Blaine Harden, "The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot"
March 21, 2015
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as posted by the channelIn his second foray into the shadowy world of North Korea, Harden, who told the gripping story of a political prisoner’s bid for freedom in Escape from Camp 14, examines Kim Il Sung’s rise to power in the dual context of the support of Mao and Stalin and the defiance of No Kum Sok, a young pilot who, in 1953, risked everything by stealing a Soviet MIG-15 and flying it to South Korea to hand over to the Americans. Harden is in conversation with Kenneth H. Rowe, formerly a lieutenant of the North Korean Air Force, known as No Kum Sok before he defected
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