Kim Jong Un: Modern Machiavelli or Relentless Dictator
Many people consider a leader to be somebody who is “the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country” (Google Definition). What many people fail to realize is that nowhere in that definition does it state that the ruler has to be compassionate or civil. Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a country in East Asia. He is overly controlling and forces his subjects to love him - or else. According to Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince, a piece of literature used to describe the errors of politics, Kim Jong Un is an effective ruler. The North Korean ruler follows the quotes “Before all else be armed” and “It is better to be feared than loved, if you can not be both.”. Kim Jong Un closely adheres to the ideals set forth by Machiavelli as evidenced by his use of brutal, barbaric tactics, as well as his development of North Korea as a nuclear power. …show more content…
He has incarcerated anywhere from 80,000 to 120,000 citizens in prison camps where they are tortured and persecuted in an abundance of ways. The UN commission for human rights has found evidence of "extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions . . . persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds" as well as forced starvation and other abuses (“Sickening Brutality” 4). North Korean women are being raped by the soldiers, and if they become pregnant, they are forced to have multiple abortions (“Sickening Brutality” 4). Kim has petrified nearly all of the victims to become silent about the subject. The tyrant can be charged by the United Nations for violating many basic human
Many people consider a leader to be somebody who is “the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country” (Google Definition). What many people fail to realize is that nowhere in that definition does it state that the ruler has to be compassionate or civil. Kim Jong Un is the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a country in East Asia. He is overly controlling and forces his subjects to love him - or else. According to Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince, a piece of literature used to describe the errors of politics, Kim Jong Un is an effective ruler. The North Korean ruler follows the quotes “Before all else be armed” and “It is better to be feared than loved, if you can not be both.”. Kim Jong Un closely adheres to the ideals set forth by Machiavelli as evidenced by his use of brutal, barbaric tactics, as well as his development of North Korea as a nuclear power. …show more content…
He has incarcerated anywhere from 80,000 to 120,000 citizens in prison camps where they are tortured and persecuted in an abundance of ways. The UN commission for human rights has found evidence of "extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions . . . persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds" as well as forced starvation and other abuses (“Sickening Brutality” 4). North Korean women are being raped by the soldiers, and if they become pregnant, they are forced to have multiple abortions (“Sickening Brutality” 4). Kim has petrified nearly all of the victims to become silent about the subject. The tyrant can be charged by the United Nations for violating many basic human