2010年金一南的《苦难辉煌》火到了顶点。火到什么程度?火到重印十九次达100万册仍然出现脱销,火到全国研究生统考政治学试卷就围绕这本书设论述题。这完全出乎金一南本人意外,因为从主题内容到装帧与厚度,哪方面去看,这本书都不具畅销性,它是靠口碑慢慢升温的。国防大学政委刘亚洲谈这本书的成功之处时,说金一南“敢于立一家之言,领转变观念之先,领敢讲真话之先,领包容并蓄 In 2010 Jinyi Nan’s ”brilliant suffering“ to the top. To what extent the fire? Fire to reprint nineteen times up to 1 million still appear out of stock, the fire to the National Graduate exam politics papers on the book set the topic. This is completely contrary to Kim Il-nan himself, because from the content of the theme to the frame and thickness, which aspects to see, this book is not popular, it is slowly warming by word of mouth. When talking about the success of this book, Liu Yazhou, a political commissar of the National Defense University, said that Kim Yon-nam ”dared to establish one’s own words and take the lead before turning one’s mind into one.