Kim Jong-il

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,…

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…

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 about the…

two authors. Suzy Kim explains North Korea by using words, whereas Hazel Smith use numbers to analyze North Korea. Seeing politics, economy, and society of North Korea from different two views of Suzy Kim and Hazel Smith is the good way of understanding how North Korean state has been built.…

authors. Suzy Kim explains North Korea by using words, whereas Hazel Smith uses numbers to analyze North Korea. This difference should be argued because…

Park Chung Hee and Kim Il Sung are perhaps the two most influential Koreans of the 20th century. They were leaders of two opposing sides on a divided Korean peninsula. Park was the leader of South Korea, known as The Republic of Korea (ROK), and Kim was the leader of North Korea, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since the Korean War, their countries have been in a stalemate characterized by a switch between periods of polarizing tension and times of cooperation and…

The country has been in a Communist one-man dictatorship since Kim Il Sung established the country with the help of Joseph Stalin on September 9th 1948. Throughout its history, one family, the Kim family, has been the only ones to rule North Korea. The majority political party is the Korean Workers Party and the two minority parties are the Chondoist Chongu Party and the Social…

Still not so harmful? Going back on Kim Jong II allowing his people to go through poverty, normal economies cope with importing food, but this was not the case for North Korea. During the 1980’s, North Koreas government embarked on a policy of radical self-sufficiency known as juche. Farmers…

South Korea has carried out annual military drills and in 2016, the largest ever US- South Korea military drills have been exercised to act as a warning to Pyongyang, North Korea. It was also the first time stimulate scenarios that the regime of Kim Jong-un, has…

On 20 Oct 2015, the 20th divided family reunion meeting was hold in Mount Kumgang area in DROK, 389 South Korean participants fortunately had a brief meeting with their 141 relatives from North Korea after a 20 months absence. The sorrow and tears at the reunion site reminds people that the divided family issue, one of Korea's most urgent and pressing humanitarian problem caused by its historical and political division, is still remained unsolved and grim. This paper will summarize the…