Kim Jong-un
28 December 2011: The day that would change the lives of those who lived in North Korea, and impact those of our entire world. This date is marked by the burial of the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il and the declaration of the new supreme leader, his son, Kim Jong-un.
Kim was born January 8, 1983 in North Korea. His predecessor and father was Kim Jong-il, and mother Ko Yong-hui, an opera singer. Kim went to a school in Switzerland and had to use a fake name for security reasons. He returned home in 2000. Fast forward to 2009 and Kim gets the title “Brilliant Comrade”, a title similar to those held by the two former supreme leaders. Though Kim is the youngest, he was still chosen to be the next leader of North Korea, and “is apparently
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Most people say that this stunt was to boost his military combat rèsumè. “Kim Jong-un was named by the government as his father’s successor. He also took his father's seats in the Worker's Party of Korea, the Politburo Presidium, and the Central Military Commission.” Like his father, Kim married an opera singer by the name of Ri Sol-ju. Soon after their daughter, Kim Ju-ae, was born, and the new supreme leader was also crowned with the title of “wonsu, or marshal, the highest rank in the North Korean military.” The next two years were filled with kim methodically removing his father’s government officials, some who happened to be family members and replacing them with his own people. “In March 2014, Kim ran unopposed
Kim Il-Sung was born in 1912. Earlier in his life he was named Kim Söng-Ju, but he changed it in the 1930’s when he became a Korean Freedom Fighter and changed his name to Il-Sung. (Biography.) Eventually Il-Sung went to the Soviet Union, there he joined the Communist Party. (Biography.) Later on he went to have a
Kim was unable to speak out under communism- where all information is regarded as sensitive. Consequently, when Kim was 29 years old she defected to the West leaking her story from her unknown viewpoint. Until then, her true thoughts and feelings could only have been assumed.
Unlike other dynamic leaders who are portrayed as symbols of the government; for example, Hitler was seen as the symbol or figure head of the Nazi party and German government at the time of WWII, Kim Jong-il was seen as the symbol of North Korea as a whole. Similarly to the Nazi party, however, Kim Jong-il shared a similar common goal: to target another group to increase cooperation and morale within the other group. Kim Jong-il was in no doubt the symbol of North Korea since “every book, every newspaper article, every song, every TV program” is about the dear leader, and “the flowers are named after him [and] the mountains are carved with his slogans. Even every citizen wears the badge of the Great Leader at all times” (TED2015 Suki). Kim Jong-il is the only thing that the people of North Korea ever hear and see whether it is when they are reading the daily newspaper, listening to a song, or going on a jog, and it starts to greatly influence them.
The Hermit Kingdom’s Great Leader died at 2 a.m., Friday, Pyongyang Radio said today. The Korean Central News Agency, the country's official news, issued a seven-page announcement of Kim's death, which said that he would be remembered as a man capable of "creating something from nothing.” Kim Il-sung was the dictator who transformed the northern half of Korea into the “Hermit Kingdom” it is today. He is known worldwide (except in the country he ruled) as one of the most brutal dictators who ever lived, who kept his absolute power with total suppression of his people and control over all the information that went into and left the nation. Kim Il-sung was born under the name Kim Song-ju near Pyongyang, in Mangyongdae Korea in April of 1912. In the 1920s, he and his family moved to Manchuria to flee the Japanese occupation of Korea. He would go on to master chinese and become a Korean freedom fighter against the japanese occupation. This is where he got the name Il-sung, in honor of a famed guerrilla fighter. Kim eventually relocated to the Soviet Union, where he stayed from 1940 until the end of WWII. During that time, he led a unit within the Red Army, and he had his son, Kim Jong-il.
Sun-Nam Kim is a Korean modernist composer and one of the highly acclaimed composers for his notable musical artistry. After his study (piano and composition) in imperial Tokyo (late 1930s), Kim returned to Korea at the height of the Pacific War and contributed to the emerging art and populist music scenes of late-colonial and liberated Korea (1942-6). Due to his self-identification as a socialist, Kim faced mounting persecution in the pro-U.S., pro-capitalist south beginning in 1946. After his fleeing to the north in 1947, the performance and publication of Kim's works became illegal in South Korea until its reverse in 1988. Not much is known about his life in North Korea, but it is evident that he became a target of political persecution
Kim Jong-Il's succession of his father, Kim Il-Sung, was not a simple process. Unlike North Korea's allies the USSR and China, North Korea's system of succession was well-established and very thorough. North Korea's system was not based on the idea that Jong-Il would just become the leader of the country. As stated in Lynn's Bipolar Orders, each stage of Jong-Il's ascension would test his political talents in order to prove that he would be able to take control of North Korea effectively. The process would take many years and started long before the public knew that he would be the one to succeed Kim Il-Sung.
North Korea’s leader is Kim Jong-un. He is considered the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Supreme leader. Jong-un was officially given the title of leader on December 24th, 2011.
This is due to his predecessor not letting IAEA inspectors acquire a full scope of the country’s nuclear program, which includes proof that the obtained plutonium wasn’t being incorporated in warheads. Before long, he rolled ahead and expelling the inspectors while plans for reopening a plutonium reprocessing plant were underway (Norris & Kristensen, 2005). Thereupon in 2009 after readmitting inspectors, Kim Jong-Il expelled inspectors yet again and informed the IAEA that the nuclear program would be resuming (Landler, 2009). This was a horrible, terrible move on the leader’s part. North Korea was well on its way to being view in a positive light again until they expelled inspectors on two different occasions. Essentially all of the aid they were receiving at the time was cut, which was a devastating blow to the country as it still hadn’t recovered from the famines in the late 1980’s early 1990’s. Now his son, Kim Jong-Un, has more or less been screwed over as now he has inherited power from his father’s mistakes of their nuclear program and the lack of foreign
Kim, who reportedly became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1987, had been living in Yanji, a city close to the China-North Korea border since 2001. He claims to have traveled daily
Kin Jong-un stepped into the spotlight in 2011, when he inherited the position of the leader of North Korea from his father. Ever since, he’s been causing a stir in the global community. But who is Kim Jong-un?
Jong-suk, the wife of the reclusive state’s first dictator Kim Il Sung, was born on Dec. 24, 1919 and died in 1949 of mysterious causes. Dubbed was the “Sacred Mother of the Revolution” because of her efforts to fight the Japanese forces. Many people commemorate her birthday by visiting her tomb on Christmas Eve, the New York Post details.
Kim Il-sung was the one to found the totalitarian state of North Korea. In 1945, after World War II, Kim created the communist party DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea). Kim Il-sung wanted to unify Korea under this party, so in 1950 the Korean War broke out between
Kim had a good attitude towards the journey ahead of him. The freedom that he would soon be attaining is something he is not necessarily ready for. Kim has a fairly large ego. The way he carries himself is almost like he
The war went down and we won it all. Turn’s out the T-1000’s weren’t prepared for our EMP’s. One blast of an EMP could take out a T-1000 for 15 minutes. Kim Jong Un was at the top of our list, and he escaped. We instantly started a chase to catch him. He left to go to his nuclear facility, in hope of launching more weapons. With a gun to one of his nuclear reactors, we told him, “Put your hands behind your back and drop the weapon”. He dropped the weapon and immediately reached to press the button with the label, “FIRE”. I was like a sniper and shot from 1500 meters away, right into his hand, injecting The FLare into him. And we lived happily ever after, yeah not really. Upon my exit, someone from my team yelled for help, we thought it was Max, so we ran after him. When we got there, he had a assault rifle locked onto my head. He didn’t meet with his family, he met with North Korea and then, I was the suspect. The only thing we didn’t teach, the dropkick. It only took one karate kick to the left side of the face to knock him out. We arrested Kim and later convicted him with more than 300 million counts of murder. As for the traitor, we left him duct taped to the diamond royalty chair. That was the end of Kim’s supremacy. Today is my birthday, not really mine, but our brand new country's birthday. I am the President of the New Day, and we stand united. What happened today, shall be told tomorrow. For today, my country stands another
Hyok Kang was born in 1986 in a nearby village in Onsong, North Korea, which is close to the North Korean and Chinese/Siberian border. His paternal side of his family was actually South Korean, who found refuge in Japan, but followed the pro-communists back to North Korea. They were actually duped but were eventually given certain privileges by the Great Leader Kim Il-Sung for being such a “patriotic” family. During Il-Sung’s rule, Hyok’s family had contact with their family living in Japan, even to the point where