Suh Dae-sook (22 November 1931 – 13 September 2022) was a South Korean professor

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and a director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the

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

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in 1952. He received his

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from Columbia University in 1964 with a thesis ''Korean Communism and the rise of Kim''. He also later worked as a researcher there. In 1989, he was a visiting professor at

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. From 1999 to 2000, he worked as the Yongjae Distinguished Professor at

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. He was best known for the books '' Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader'', published by

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, that in the late 2010s was considered the best work on the early life of

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, and ''The Korean Communist Movement''. His works have been published or translated in English, Korean, Russian, and German.

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*Dae-Sook Suh ''Korean Communism and the rise of Kim'' Columbia University. 1964 *Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee. ''Political Leadership in Korea'' Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2014. According to WorldCat, the book is in 967 libraries.WorldCat book page
/ref> *Dae-Sook Suh; Chae-Jin Lee, eds. ''North Korea after Kim Il Sung'' Boulder, Colo: L. Rienner, 1996 *Dae-Sook Suh, ed. ''Korean Studies: new Pacific Currents''. University of Hawaii, 1994 *Dae-Sook Suh ''Kim Il Sung: the North Korean Leader '' NY: Columbia Univ. Press, 1988/1995 *Dae-Sook Suh ''Korean Communism 1945–1989 : a reference guide. '' Univ. Hawaii Press. 1981 *Dae-Sook Suh ''New directions of domestic policy in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.'' Univ. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981 *Dae-Sook Suh ''Koreans in the Soviet Union '' Univ. Hawaii Press. 1987 *Dae-Sook Suh ''The Korean Communist Movement 1918–1948.'' Princeton Univ. Press, 1967 *Dae-Sook Suh ''Documents of Korean Communism, 1918–48'' Princeton Univ. Press, 1970. Calif., 1995 Press. 1981

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* 1931 births 2022 deaths Columbia University alumni University of Hawaiʻi faculty Historians of Korea South Korean political scientists North Korean defectors Texas Christian University alumni Columbia University faculty Academic staff of Yonsei University Academic staff of Seoul National University Scholars of North Korea {{Korea-historian-stub

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