Download or read book The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot written by Blaine Harden and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and escape. As Kim ascended from Soviet puppet to godlike ruler, No Kum Sok noisily pretended to love his Great Leader. That is, until he swiped a Soviet MiG-15 and delivered it to the Americans, not knowing they were offering a $100,000 bounty for the warplane (the equivalent of nearly one million dollars today).