Kim Yong-Il's Motivation For Religious Freedom

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Over the course of North Korea’s development, the world—while it is very difficult to observe North Korean life—has found ways to learn of what goes on behind those electrically charged barbed wire fences. The truth of the matter is that North Korea’s people have suffered greatly while not even realizing the depravity of their situations. North Korea’s leader, Kim Yong-Il has been and is continuing to “lead” his people immorally and unjustly in many ways. North Korea has been oppressed for so long in such horrible and degrading ways that is seems like there is no hope left for these innocent suffering citizens. Fortunately, God gives his people his perfect word from which advice, examples and life lessons can be taken and applied to every situation …show more content…
In fact, they wouldn’t be used at all. If this was a situation of true peace, Kim would abolish these anti religion laws and administer his people’s religious freedom to them as his people have a right to all that their own. Kim Yong-Il’s motivation for these Anti-religion laws wasn’t ever peace, as just laws should be, but rather control and conformity. If Kim were to change his ways, his motivation concerning religious laws would be to promote religious freedom throughout his country. This would be a just action because it ultimately would be for the greater good of the people, promote peace, and the motivation behind this action would be legit. Allowing North Korean people to have religious freedom would be just because Kim would be giving his people their individuality back—something that Kim, at the moment, is not allowing his people to have. This is because Kim most likely thinks that if his people had individuality, they would have more self-confidence, which ultimately would lead to more revolts against oppressive and controlling authority. Kim Yong-IL just doesn’t want to deal with any of that. Giving North Korean people’s their religious freedom would be just because it would ultimately create peace. By giving people their religious freedom, the North Korean people would start to feel a sense of value and respect from Kim, which would then be reflected back and shown to him. This exchange of respect would decrease the chances of revolts in North Korea, significantly increasing the chances of long term peace between authority and the

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