Kim Il-sung

Does the author or publisher endorse political or religious views that could affect objectivity? The author is a professional journalist currently working for Newsweek, with past employment by Fortune and Time. He has been reporting from China since 2000, and currently resides in Shanghai. I was unable to definitely ascertain if he is related to John W. Powell, who was tried for sedition in 1952, and also lived in China. A cursory search of Bill Powell’s biography did not identify any…

biggest issue, Kim Jung Un, and his rise to power over the North Korean people. A background of Kim Jung Un’s childhood and early life are told which later transitions into his…

they are not self-sufficient. For this project I photo-shopped photos of Kim Jung-un, North Koreas dictator, along with a CNN Breaking News Headline. My goal was to bring forth a real life issue while comparing my central project theme,…

by our international community. “High School students in America debate why President Roosevelt didn 't bomb the rail lines to Hitler 's camps. Their children may ask, a generation from now, why the West stared at far clearer satellite images of Kim Jong Il 's camps, and did nothing.” (Harden back cover). In the centuries ahead we will learn about how our nation failed the people of North Korea, and about this hidden genocide as well as how it could have been stopped. Hopefully the next…

The Asian Big Brother In the small and isolated country of East Asia, North Korea is a terrible place to live. The Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, is the dictator of the small communist country. Kim Jong Un Uses various methods to keep his people under his control. He dictates his country very similar to the way Big Brother dictates in George Orwell’s dystopian science fiction novel, 1984. In the book 1984, the main character, Winston, is a normal outer party member, which is someone controlled by…

(Sargent, 2013). The Official Korean Central News Agency states that “leader Kim Jong II is so beloved that during a train explosion, members of the public ran into their houses, preferring to save the portraits of their ‘dear leader’ before their family members. With these censorship rules this means that only a certain amount of foreign journalists is allowed access but must be accompanied by ‘minders’ which follow them around. Kim Jong II uses political censorship for halting opposing views…

One of the most well-known examples of a modern dictatorship is Kim Jong Un’s “leadership” over North Korea. So well known that Hollywood ended up making two satirical films about how poorly North Korea has been lead, one being the assassination of Kim Jong Un called “The Interview” and the other about assassinating his father, Kim Jong Il, called “Team America: World Police”. Kim Jong Un was born into power as an heir to Kim Jong Il and was given the position as supreme leader of the Democratic…

horribly. On January 7, 1989, Hirohito died of cancer at the place of his birth and his son Akihito succeeded him to the throne. Kim Jong-Un (North Korea) 2011-???? Kim Jong-Un was born January 8, 1983, in Pyongyang, North Korea as the youngest son of Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, having inherited his position from his father Kim Jong-Il. He is also the Military Leader of North Korea. Pyung-yang people live wealthy. On the other hand, North Korea refuses to…

are also malnourished.” Kim Jong-Un currently rules this totalitarian state. He became the leader after his father, Kim Jong-Il, died in 2011. Much of Kim Jong-Un’s life is left a mystery, including his date of birth and early childhood. His mother, Ko Yuong-Hee was an opera singer. He has an older brother named Kim Jong-chol and a half-brother names Kim Jong-nam. In May 2001 his half-brother was deported from Japan. Kim Jong-un is Swiss-educated and attended Kim il-sung Military University,…

his clothes, one can assume that he has earned some kind of military honor. This man is Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea. He is thirty-two years old and he took this position when his father, Kim Jong-Il, died of a heart attack a few years ago. His father was known as a ruthless dictator; has his son followed in his footsteps? The reason why this picture of Kim Jong-un was selected is because they are staged. They were chosen to deliberately…