Kim Il-sung

of an assimilation policy, Japan required Koreans to adopt Japanese style surnames, worship at Shinto shrines and learn the Japanese language. Koreans could also volunteer in the Japanese army to which they later fought for japan in the Pacific War (Kim xxii). For thirty-five years, Japan built up the northern part of the peninsula with industrial bases and saw the peninsula as a strategic link between Japan and the Asian mainland; however this empire would quickly come to an end. On August 6th,…

figures of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, and in that of his successor the Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. According to the testimonies of North Korean defectors, starting from their childhood people are taught to look at the two Kim as semi-divine infallible heroes which devoted their life in the struggle against Western and Japanese imperialism. Consistent with these findings, C. Richardson provided some precious insight in “Hagiography of the Kims & the Childhood of Saints: Kim Il-sung”,published on…

Korean War, which lasted from 1950-53, the DPRK under the rule of President Kim Il Sung, “adopted…

than a religious one – is Juche, translated from Korean to ‘Self-reliance’, originating 1956 by Korean communist politician Kim Il-Sung. All other beliefs are completely prohibited and considered anti-state, and therefore crime, by the current dictator Kim Jong-Un. Juche worships Kim Il-Sung as ‘God’, Kim Jong-Il (Kim Il-Sung’s son) as the ‘Son of God’, and Kim Jong-Un (Kim Il-Sung’s grandson) as the ‘Grandson of God’ respectively. Any resident in North Korea who follows another faith – and…

this event Kim Jung Il had become a respected leader in the militia, serving his father faithfully. Kim Jung Il was focus on the militia helped gain him numerous allies within the People’s Army, so when the time arrived for him to inherit the throne he gained the respect of key people within the workers party. One similarity that has marked the beginning of the Kim dynasty in North Korea has been in the immediate reshuffling of the top advisors and leaders within the party. Kim Jung Il wasted no…

about 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and 150 miles (240 km) long in which armed guards patrol both sides.The korean war started in 1950 by north korea, because they wanted to unify all of korean under a communist government.The first leader of north korea, kim Il sung ruled from the 1948 until his…

was shown the communist way from the beginning (Kim 519). From the end of World War II, the Soviets began supplying the Koreans in the North with weapons from both the surrendered Japanese, and from the Soviet Union itself (Kim 519). It is stated that even before the Korean war officially began, the Soviets had supplied the Northerners with “15,000 rifles, 139 pieces of artillery, 37 T-34 tanks, 94 various aircraft, and spare parts for them.” (Kim 519). The Soviet Union would continue to supply…

writing to you, Dr. Reed, in order to inform you about who I am and my role serving the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). I was born an orphan raised by my single father, Park Ho Sung. My father was a great general who worked for the Korean People's Army led by our former Supreme leader, Kim Jong-Il. Father recently passed away, but taught me well under strict rules. Without him, I would not be in the position I am today. My early childhood was very stringent. Every day I would…

the two regions, the policies of the occupational governments only further drove the two halves of Korea even further apart. The PPCK was led by Kim Tu-bong, the head of the newly formed Worker’s Party of North Korea, and Kim il-Sung, a former guerilla leader and Soviet Red Army member who was put into power by the Soviet occupation. Under Tu-bong and il-Sung’s leadership, the PPCK began centralizing the remains of the PRK’s government, as well as a series of land “reforms.” These reforms…

On June 25, 1950, the Republic of Korea invaded the Democratic Republic of Korea under the leadership of Kim Il-Sung. The attack began around 3 or 4 AM in Ongjin and was a declaration of war. During the war, 10 percent of the population was either killed, wounded or missing, while 600 000 of homes combined in North and South Korea were destroyed. William Stueck argues in his book, Rethinking the Korean War, that had only intensified and militarized the Cold War. This paper thus answers the…