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works. According to North Korean sources these amount to approximately 10,800 speeches, reports, books, treatises and others. Some, such as the 100-volume "Complete Collection of Kim Il-sung's Works" (), are published by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House. Shortly before his death, he published an eight-volume autobiography, "With the Century".
According to official North Korean sources, Kim Il-sung was the original writer of many plays and operas. One of these, "
father Kim Il-sung as a revolutionary genius who liberated Korea from the Japanese occupation, portrayed the history of the Kim family favourably and eulogising North Korean revolutionaries.
The Mansudae Art Troupe has performed over 700 times in over 50 countries to "promote the friendship with the progressive peoples of the world." It played a key role in producing the revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl" (1972) a tragic story about North Korea under Japanese occupation during the 1930s and said to have been written by Kim Il-sung