North Kore Totalitarian Authoritarian Regime

North Korea has been labeled as a mysterious state as the country is secluded from the rest of the world. The Democratic People 's Republic of Korea is a small country with a population of 25 million and is under a communist model of power. The country has been under control of the Kim dynasty since 1948, it began with Kim Il-Song and since then they have remained in power to this current day. The leaders are plastered all over the city of Pyongyang, with statues and murals on the wall and with the citizens wearing pins with the previous leaders to show their dedication to the regime. The city itself is a front to demonstrate a dynamic and advanced country. The regime has been successful for years, regardless of the fact that the government is repressive and the numerous violations of human rights. After the mismanagement of the famine crisis, which resulted in possibly millions of deaths. How is it possible for the regime to be still intact, especially when so many countries before them, have failed. The regime has successfully indoctrinated children at a young age through their education system, the barricading of information and their implanting of fear among the population.

Officially and originally referred to as, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea has had a dictatorship since 1948. (DPRK) On September 9, 1948 the United Nations elected South of Korea to be the Republic of Korea. They then elected North of Korea to be the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea electing Kim Il- Sung as the Prime Minster. This started the dictatorship in North Korea that still reigns on today.

North Korea’s government is very similar to Anthem’s form of government. North Korea is a dictatorship, meaning one person has absolute power and controls everything. The people of Korea are under strict rules and if

North Korea is ruled by a leader named Kim Jong II. North Korea is like an isolated country that are being brained wash by their one leader Kim Jong II. People are taken and are taught in a young age on who to rule and who are the bad people and have hate towards the US. North Korea has false fantasy about the US making

Life in North Korea’s high contrast with life in the United States is marked by nonexistent personal freedoms and harsh punishments. One example of restricted freedom in shown in their leader, Kim Jong-un. He, who they address as Dear Leader, is treated like

George Orwell’s 1984, gives readers a glimpse of what it would look like to have a future with a totalitarian government. A future where one person will control everybody through manipulation and fear. These types of governments continue to exist in certain countries today, one of them being North Korea. North Korea’s government is similar to the Party in 1984, in which their government is a totalitarian dictatorship where Kim Jong Un, their singular leader, controls everything. Both governments in North Korea and 1984 are led by dictators, “Big Brother” in 1984 and Kim Jong Un in North Korea, who are similar in many ways. Their similarity is due to the various techniques they use, which include mind control, propaganda and deprivation of freedom. It is clear that both governments use a variety of different methods of manipulation to control to their citizens.

The Secret State of North Korea offered a great look into what basic things North Koreans are lacking. Even within the realm of Communism. Lack of freedoms, lack of food, lack of community, lack of trust, lack of a social society, lack of programs for children, lack of equality, and a lack of information. When Kim Il-Sung created North Korea, the government was based on Marxism and Leninism, called “Juche.” Just as the Soviets, the North Koreans followed suite with massive inequality between the government officials and the common people. The documentary showed its viewers what the government is omnipresent in the everyday lives of its people, so much so that recordings of daily life are illegal, and “random” searches take place commonly.

Following the fall of the U.S.S.R., North Korea has almost directly become the empire of repression that George Orwell illustrated in Nineteen Eighty Four. Although North Korea is lacking in a technological sense compared to “The Party”, they have some very similar tactics such as the invasion of privacy, the creation of class systems and the use of propaganda to hold their oppressive power in place.

Although Kim Jong Il’s government signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, reports had surfaced that they continued with the nuclear program. In 2003, North Korea withdrew from the treaty and openly resumed its nuclear research. As stated earlier, North Korea continues to shroud itself in secrecy in order to keep its strengths a secret from their so called ‘enemies’. The government upholds the aforementioned restrictions to keep their secrets from leaking out, and to keep the citizens ignorant to the outside world. Authorities have been known to deal out cruel and inhuman punishments to those who are found to have broken the ‘rules’. A North Korean escapee, Park Yeonmi, recounts from her childhood that her best friend’s mother was sentenced to be executed, Her crime was having watched South Korean films and lending the DVDs to friends. Her punishment in this most paranoid of dictatorships, was death by firing squad. The misfortune didn’t stop for Yeonmi however, as her father was arrested years later and was taken to a ‘re-education’ camp and given a 17-year sentence. She recalls his state during a visit, ‘He was beaten. Guards placed sticks between his fingers and crunched them together. He was made to sit in excruciating stress positions for interminable periods. Prisoners were

There are three different kinds of dictatorships; Autocracy, oligarchy, and absolute democracy. I am going to talk about North Korea. North Korea is one of the few remaining totalitarian governments, which is a form of dictatorship in which the dictator or ruler try to control all aspects of life, extending beyond politics. While they have elections to choose their leader, the elected leader has full control over all aspects of life. Life is drastically different inside this form of government, as photos show, life is heavily restricted. TV programs only show propaganda and they are the only source of entertainment. A news articles tells the story of a boy names Kim and how he survived the famine in North Korea. Early in the article, Kim tells us that, "You could be sent to a prison camp for allowing dirt to gather on Kim – sung's portrait, or putting it behind cracked glass,". This tells us how hard the punishments were and how unfair everything was. It also tells us how they brainwashed the citizens, whether they portrayed Americans spearing pregnant women, or leading them to think that their only escape route, the Tumen river, was laced with 33,000 volts of electricity. Overall, life in North Korea is a terrible experience.

Kim Jong-il was the supreme leader of North Korea from July of 1994 until his untimely death on December 17th, 2011. His reign as dictator is defined by most as successful but he will go down as one of the most dangerous dictators the world has ever seen. The people of North Korea looked up to Kim Jong-il as a god-like figure.

How did North Korea become the cruel country that scorches both surrounding and distant nations with its sternly severe socialist flame? Subjugated by Japan in 1910, North Korea was mercilessly enslaved for thirty-five years. Due to Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, the United States occupied the southern region of the Korean Peninsula while Soviet troops seized the north. As a result communism spread like weeds. Sadly, North Korea's government, military, and economy were all by shaped by the leftist views suppressed on them. The root of the problem was Kim Il-Sung, the first premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. At the urging of the United States, the United Nations General Assembly established elections, introduced a constitution, and formed the Republic of Korea in South Korea.

DPRK was liberated from Japanese colonial rule by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. When Kim IL Sung, born April 15, 1912, returned to North Korea from the Soviet Union, where he and his guerrillas had been based since 1941 - 1945, the Soviet occupation forces in the northern part of the country presented him to the North Korean people as a hero. In mid-1990’s, Kim IL Sung was general secretary of North Korea's ruling party and president of the state. North Korea is a classic example of the "rule of man." Which essentially means controlling everyone under one rule. Overall, radical management is highly personalized and is based on loyalty to Kim IL Sung and the Korean Workers' Party. The out of the ordinary personality and the strong influence of former anti-Japanese partisan veterans and military leaders are unique features of North Korean politics. (New York

Korea was split into two countries following World War II with the northern half (North Korea) falling under a Communist domination and the southern portion (South Korea) becoming Western-oriented (Korea (North, n.d.). North Korea, officially referred to as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has a totalitarianism dictatorship as its current form of government (Korea (North, n.d.). This country initially adopted a constitution in 1942, which has been amended on multiple occasions (North Korea: Government, n.d.). Furthermore, the constitution establishes the country’s status as a socialist state that is defined as a dictatorship of people’s democracy (North Korea: Government, n.d.).

North Korea (officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK) is a single-party Communist state in south-east Asia, ruled since 1949 by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP). Regarded by many in the international community as a pariah state (meaning that it is an outcast), North Korea has in recent years become increasingly poverty-stricken, with many of its citizens having barely enough food to survive.