Kim Il-sung

Kim Il Sung, originally born Kim Song-ju, was born on April 15, 1912. Kim was born in a dark time for the Koreans due to the occupation of Korea by Japan. It was around this time when North Koreans grew tired of being Japan’s puppets, and they were ready for a true Korean to stand up for them and take back their beloved country. Kim IL Sung was not born to become anyone important, and he was certainly not born to become the future dictator of North Korea. Kim’s family came from nowhere special they

a man capable of "creating something from nothing.” Kim Il-sung was the dictator who transformed the northern half of Korea into the “Hermit Kingdom” it is today. He is known worldwide (except in the country he ruled) as one of the most brutal dictators who ever lived, who kept his absolute power with total suppression of his people and control over all the information that went into and left the nation. Kim Il-sung was born under the name Kim Song-ju near Pyongyang, in Mangyongdae Korea in April

Holocaust (Anna Fifield). The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, is a Socialist Dictatorship that was split into the North and South after World War II. The USSR, after gaining control of North Korea, appointed Kim Il-sung as their leader in 1948. After the Korean war ended in 1953, North Korea started to transform into the nation that we are familiar with in today’s world. North Korea has been described by some human rights activist groups to be one of the biggest

country would be divided along the 38th parallel and occupied by soviet troops in the North and American troops in the South. Syngman Rhee, who had spent some years exiled in America, became the president of South Korea in 1948, while Kim Il Sung, having

People’s Republic of Korea electing Kim Il- Sung as the Prime Minster. This started the dictatorship in North Korea that still reigns on today. Kim Il-Sung was born in 1912. Earlier in his life he was named Kim Söng-Ju, but he changed it in the 1930’s when he became a Korean Freedom Fighter and changed his name to Il-Sung. (Biography.) Eventually Il-Sung went to the Soviet Union, there he joined the Communist Party. (Biography.) Later on he went to have a

unique political experiment it’s been running for almost 70 years. It’s all at the expense of an isolated and subjugated people. This means people protected from the outside world by their leader, public knowledge of the country remains limited. Even Kim Jong Un exact age is a mystery to north Koreans and to other people, like his father and grandfather before him. North Korea is a country however cautiously is gradually opening its door to investors and tourists but at the same time remains inaccessible

Korea’s ancient history revolves around The Three Kingdoms of Korea. These Three Kingdoms of Korea included the states of Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. These three kingdoms unified under Silla in 676, which led to the North-South States Period and relative peace. This period of peace however was broken under internal strife and this state surrendered to Goryeo and unified together renamed Joseon under King Taejo of Goryeo. This empire was relatively peaceful at the beginning until the invasion of the

Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick provides insight into the lives of North Korean defectors while in North Korea. Their accounts give inside information about the North Korean regime which makes it possible to analyze to what extent society was an egalitarian utopia. The interview reveals that people were discriminated by social class as evident by those who were richer, and thus in a higher social strata, having more opportunities for success. There was also economic inequity which was apparent

its tipping point, with the possibility of revolt waiting around every corner. However, for North Korean citizens, a well-structured and large-scale rebellion may seem both impossible and unnecessary. Currently commanded by the infamous, baby-faced Kim Jong Un, the communist regime works tirelessly to advance the political state of North Korea within the world, while simultaneously restricting their people from reaching autonomy, economic success, and enlightenment to their rulers’ wrongdoings. To

held together by a combination of force and propaganda aimed at brainwashing the public. North Korea’s Communist dictatorship uses both brainwashing and force to control the population of the country. The founder of North Korea, first president Kim IL Sung, created the country’s policy of Juche or “self-reliance,” which has cut off North Korea from the rest of the world even in times of great need such as famines. This is generally how the start of the dictatorship