Song is a resourceful man who oozes charm.

Song certainly knows how to catch mice !

Wall painting of the late Kim Il Sung in North Korea.

Their mother, Kim Jong suk, is said to have died from hemorrhaging while giving premature birth caused by her distress over Kim Il sung s love affair with Kim Song ae.

Before long, she is cheating on her boyfriend and swooning into Song s arms and bed.

Watching from afar, the doctor saw Kim Il sung holding a pistol.

In fact, Kim Il sung and his son, Kim Jong il, were typical Korean rulers.

Kim Il sung reportedly rushed to the hospital, but the door to her room was locked.

Joo Sung ha is a North Korean defector turned journalist who runs a blog named North Korea RT (Real Talk) .

She is tempted by the shortcut Song promises and allows herself to be seduced by him in turn for a large sum of cash and luxury apartment.

But, as it happens, only days before Guo secretly had an abortion, right after a dramatic fight with Song s wife.

Indeed, while Song may be cast as an anti hero, in contemporary China, he is considered a good catch.

Dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Il sung, as iron men of destiny, must stand alone.

As Song arrogantly says to Guo before he dies, As long as it s a problem that we can solve with money, then it s not a big problem.

The most interesting thing about Wo Ju may be that most viewers do not dislike Song, the string pulling mayor s secretary.

According to Chan, Kim Jong suk was at Kim Il sung s Pyongyang home near the Soviet Embassy, quarreling with him.

Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital while being chased by corruption investigators! to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy. But, as it happens, only days before Guo secretly had an abortion, right after a dramatic fight with Song s wife.

The Soviets plucked a relatively obscure Korean communist, Kim Il sung, from an army camp in Vladivostok, and installed him in Pyongyang as the leader of North Korea.

Back then, Kim Il sung the North s founder faced economic collapse, diminution of his conventional military forces, and diplomatic isolation.

Kim Jong il had years to prepare as an understudy to his father, Kim Il sung , but many reports suggest that he is nearing the end of his life.

Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong il s inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il sung.

But generational change need not be accompanied by economic reform and steps towards political liberalization witness North Korea under Kim Il Sung s son, Kim Jong Il.

After marrying Chang Song taek, she began living something of a hedonistic life herself, but she scrutinized her husband s conduct minutely, flying into a jealous rage over the slightest signs of infidelity.

According to Needham, the Chinese in the Song Dynasty and continuing Yuan Dynasty did make use of a dry compass, although this type never became as widely used in China as the wet compass.

On one of China s largest sites, 46 picked Song, while only 22 chose the young boyfriend, a choice that suggests where the new generation s values now lay.

One reason why a dynastic succession is taking place is that Kim Il sung created a national ideology, Juche, which mixes communism and autarky with a heavy dose of Confucian values.

Many Web sites and bulletin boards have run surveys with questions like, If you were Guo Haizao, would you choose Song Siming and an apartment or Xiaobei (the dumped boyfriend) and true love?

Instead, the wider and deeper historical vision is of a globalization that encompasses the Roman empire and the Song dynasty, and goes back to the globalization of the human species from a common African origin.

The sudden death in 1994 of Kim Il sung, the founder of the tyrannical, economically disastrous North Korean experiment, reinforced this belief. That was then.

Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital while being chased by corruption investigators! to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.

Since the emergence of two separate regimes and systems on the Korean Peninsula in 1948, South Korea and the US (its only defense ally) have dealt with only two supreme leaders, Kim Il sung and Kim Jong il.

The officially prescribed musical diet of North Koreans consists of patriotic hymns to the Communist Party, odes to the Dear Leader, to his father, the Great Leader, Kim Il Song, and to the heroic spirit of the Korean people.

This, suggests the North Korean Leadership Watch blog, adds credibility to arguments that Kim has been trying to emulate Kim il Sung in order to win wider support among the North Korean population.

Joo Sung ha, a former member of the North Korean elite, wrote in his blog that university students had to memorize the New Year s speech, an order that prompted him to brand Kim s message an unrealistic, piece of crap .

As Song Siming, a handsome, successful, and Audi driving but also married secretary to the Mayor, tells her, On those unsightly corners in the dark where dirt, flies, and rats wander, nobody's paying attention.

Ubiquitous images of Kim Jong il and his father, Kim Il sung, are the official symbols of a secular theocracy based on juche (pronounced choocheh), the Kims contribution to the world s patrimony of totalitarian ideologies.

Speaking before the Central Committee after Kim Il sung s death, Kim Jong il said, Kim Kyong hui is myself, the words of Kim Kyong hui are my words, and instructions issued by Kim Kyong hui are my instructions.

As Song Siming, a handsome, successful, and Audi driving but also married secretary to the Mayor, tells her, On those unsightly corners in the dark where dirt, flies, and rats wander, nobody's paying attention.

Today, no one can credibly say that North Korea s dynastic regime, now led by Dear Leader Kim Jong il, a son of the late Great Leader Kim Il sung, is certain to fall.

One seemingly obscure political move last month the appointment of Jang Sung taek (Kim Kyong hui s husband) as the chairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission suggests that Kim Kyong hui s ill health is already having an impact on the regime.

Not only is he young and inexperienced, but his aunt, Kim Kyong hui, Kim Jong il s sister and the wife of the second ranking figure in North Korea s hierarchy, Chang Song taek, may balk at power slipping through her fingers.

Jang Song thaek had been seen as a kind of regent to Kim Jong un, the young successor to the Kim family dynasty, and was thought to be number two in the regime. But he owed his position to his wife, Kim Kyong hui, the only sister of Kim Jong il, Kim Jong un s deceased father.

Although rarely seen or heard, Kim Kyong hui, born on May 30, 1946 to Kim Il sung and his first wife Kim Jong suk, has served in a range of key Workers Party positions, including deputy director of the International Department and director of the Light Industry Department.

The general assembly of North Korea s Workers Party, now underway for the first time in 44 years, is the clearest sign yet that Dear Leader Kim, who is seriously ill, is passing the crown in the hermit kingdom founded by his father, Kim Il sung.

When Kim Jong il started living with his second wife, Kim Kyong hui sought to incite trouble, driven by a sense of rivalry. After marrying Chang Song taek, she began living something of a hedonistic life herself, but she scrutinized her husband s conduct minutely, flying into a jealous rage over the slightest signs of infidelity.