يقوم فيدل كاسترو يسلم الابن الاكبر الي الانقلابيين في غينيا و لكن زعيم كوريا الشمالية اوفى بعهده لوالدها. لم يسلم اى من الاطفال الى الدولة الام. قام بأدخالهم في مدرسة خاصة بأنباء المسؤولين و رعاها حتى تخرجت. كانت تنوى دراسة الموسيقى و لكن زعيم كوريا الشمالية اثناها عن ذلك و قال لها ان تدرس هندسة النسيج لان بلدها الاصلى يحتاجها لخبرتها.
Quote: From one dictator dad to another: Monica’s lost childhood in North Korea
Quote: Monica Macias was just seven when her African despot father left her with another feared leader, Kim Il-sung.
ByJulia Llewellyn Smith
MARCH 24, 2023
Quote: On the dust jacket of Monica Macias’s memoir, Black Girl from Pyongyang, there’s an extraordinary photograph of her – then aged 5, in a white, frilly dress – flanked by the two men she considers her fathers. To her right, in a suit and tie and leaning on a cane, is her biological father, Francisco Macias Nguema, known as Macias, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, whose entry in Wikipedia describes him as “one of the most brutal dictators in history”.
On her left in a Mao jacket is the man who effectively, though distantly, brought her up: Kim Il-sung, then the “Great Leader” of North Korea, whose human rights record was deemed “catastrophic” by Amnesty. “I also consider Kim Il-sung my adoptive father,” she says. “He raised me. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have had an education. Who knows what would have happened to me؟”
Today, Monica Macias lives in a south London suburb and works on the shop floor of a well-known clothes chain. No customer could even begin to guess her extraordinary childhood divided between two countries that were among the worst in terms of political rights and civil liberties, effectively parentless from the age of 7 and brought up in a military boarding school.
