IT is the place where North Korean founding leader Kim Il-sung fought against Japanese occupation forces, and where his son Kim Jong-il was born. Or at least that is what North Koreans are told to believe.
The so-called “Mount Baekdu bloodline” is used by the Kim family to legitimise its iron-fist rule in North Korea for the past seven decades.
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