Kim Il-sung

to join an expedition striving to exterminate dictator Rafael Trujillo. The coup failed before it got started, but the incident didn't dampen Castro's passion for reform. Kim Jong-Un: We dont really know when he was born, till this day its, still a mystery. He is the youngest son of Korean military leader Kim Jong Il who,…

the animals had been at the event in question. For example, in Chapter 7, Squealer had released “new information” that Snowball had been a spy for Jones since the very beginning at Animal Farm. Similarly, in “Life Inside the North Korean Bubble”, Kim Jong-Il had denied access to the World Wide Web, and instead had a secure “Intranet” in place of a small collection of articles that verified false history, as well as convinced his entire military of a bloody, yet victorious, battle against the…

the land was taken by the government and redistributed to farmers to use, though owned by the government (Poverty & Famine, 2012). Farmers could use the land by entering either shared farms or state farms, while private farming was illegal. Then Kim Il Sung, the leader at the time, started grain distribution programs supported by their biggest ally, the Soviet Union. At first these programs worked, but many problems developed. They were using too many chemical fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation…

stance with the rest of the world (Seth 233). This can be traced to the founding of North Korea. After the division of Korea, North Korea or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established. Although initially there was Soviet influence, Kim Il-Sung soon stepped up to take…

who fought in it. For North and South Korea, the conflict was a civil war, a struggle with no possible compromise between two competing visions for Korea’s future. To the North was a coalition led by three dictators Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Kim Il-sung devoted to creating a Communist Korea, a single-party state that controlled all economic assets and all aspects of the people’s lives. The United States and The Soviet Union only joined together to overthrow Japan’s control.…

itself in a state of famine. This caused the economy to fail, and infrastructures to disintegrate. After the death of the countries leader, Kim il-Sung in 1994 his son Kim Jong-il took over. Kim Jong-il transformed the country from a traditional communist government to a military dictatorship. Sadly, Kim Jong-il died in 2011, but fortunately the gallant Kim Jong-un or Dear Leader, as the North Koreans call him, was able to take his father’s place. The Kim’s have made North Korea a place of…

for intellectuals, students, or other social groups because they are considered as a threat to the regime because of the knowledge they have—might be a rebel if they smart. So, students or intellectuals activities in North Korea are monitored by Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League under Korean Workers Party—to prevent revolt. The purpose of these restrictions are to prevent people from developing trust among them that can be used as the basis for mobilized political opposition. Because the…

There is no doubt about the Jackals reading’s intended purpose. To put it simply, Han Sorya is trying to drum up Korean pride and Kim Il-Sung’s communist ideology. On the surface, Sorya appears to have written a touching story about a mother’s devotion to her dying son. But dig deeper and the underlying message is clear. This response paper argues that the Jackals reading is strategically designed to promote the “eternal struggle” rhetoric. Thus, by extension, Jackals is nothing more than a…

external ties and propaganda, gave the statement, “The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us (Kim and Takenake).” Juche is the North’s ruling ideology preached by Kim Il Sung, grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un (Kim and Takenake). Because of recent events, Japanese Defense Minster Itsunori Onodera is quoted as saying, “[the] threat posed…

The Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was…