Kim Jong-Il was the leader of North Korea from the time his father Kim Sung-Il died in 1948 until his death in 2011. The Kim family remains in charge of North Korea with Kim Jong-Il's son Kim Jong-Un as it's leader. Kim Jong-Il and the other leaders in the Kim family have been made to look like gods and are praised by many in North Korea. I think that the Kim family will remain in power for a long time. I believe that if North Korea continues to be lead the way Kim Jong-Il lead it, North Korea will face a lot more problems with other countries, will be far more repressive, and there will be less freedom than there was before. The fact that Jong-Il's whole persona was made up and that the North Korean people saw him as a god and didn't …show more content…
Both Sung-Il and Jong-Il had many children and chose wisely when choosing their successor. Kim Jong-Il had five children, three of which were son's Kim Jong-Chul, Kim Jong-Nam, and Kim Jong-Un; he chose his youngest son Kim Jong-Un over his elder son's. It is said that Jong-Il did not choose either of his elder son's because of their gentle nature and his son Jong-Chul did not believe in blind obedience, violence, and nucleur weapons. The Kim leaders choose their successors by which son is more capable of following their ways and if they didn't and another son was in power instead, North Korea might have been very different from how it is now.
Things in North Korea changed quite a bit when Kim Jong-Il became the leader. In 1994, Kim Sung-Il said that there will be no nucleur weapons for North Korea and, whether or not he was being truthful in his statement, no nucleur weapons were used before his death. When Kim Jong-Il rose to power, nucleur weapons began being tested. From 1994 to 1998, North Korea suffered from a famine and their economy was bad, and during that time Jong-Il adopted a "Military First" policy, putting their army first and ignored the fact that his people were dying from starvation. With each new Kim family leader, North Korea becomes more repressed and the government cares less about the people of North Korea and more about their military and nucleur weapons.
In conclusion, the Kim family chooses their successors wisely and then they make up
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
The U.S. helped to divide the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, and then waged war against North Korea in the 1950s. Although the U.S. signed a peace agreement rather than a peace treaty with North Korea after the war, its policy toward the country changed. Instead of trying to overthrow the North Korea government, the U.S. government adopted a policy of containing communism. During the 1980’s, associations between North Korea and the U.S. start to take on a new diplomatic form. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program had become a pressing international issue
In present, Kim Jong Un in North Korea has been ruling the country with suppression possessing much darker ambition. Since Kim Jong Un wanted more authority he has killed anyone who has threatened his power, even his uncle. As a consequence, citizens of North Korea are facing difficulties such as starvation and cold
Kim Jong UnAlthough Kim Jong Un has no confirmed birthdate, it is known he is the third and youngest son of Korean military leader Kim Jong-Il, who had ruled since 1994. His father saw a lot of himself in his son, leading to Jong Il passing his leadership on to him once he died. He passed away in 2011 and that’s when Jung Un came to power. Under his power, North Korea started weapon testing programs. In February 2012, he started testing nuclear testing on long range missile launching, going along with his weapon testing. In April, 2012 North Korea launched a satellite that failed not too long after taking off, but in December of the same year, the government launched a long-range rocket that put the satellite in order. February of the next
Kim Jong Un: is the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il. He is the supreme leader of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. He has limited experience in military and political because he was in Europe during North Korea's famine of the 1990s. He has several positions in the North Korea such as chairman of
Cultures are unparalleled with North Korea maintaining a communist government ran by the Kim Family for generations rather than a democracy like the United States. North Korea consists of a population conditioned from a very young age to accept the words and deeds of the elder and junior Kim’s to be the absolute truth. “The greatest meaning in life lies in bullets and bombs.” With a society referred into three categories as basic, chaotic and enemy, depending on the background and social origins. With a culture that operates as a communist Government raising human rights issues in addition to concerns over nuclear and chemical weapons. Human rights are nonexistent in the country. Officials above Deputy Prime Minister Level are provided vehicles at state expenses. Party operates at a level of discipline surpassing that of the military. For example, “public self-criticism is the punishment for being a minute late after lunch. Surveillance is much tighter to include listening devices at home and watching their every move.” Corruption is highest in the government trading and foreign exchange departments. Almost equally severe in departments responsible for housing and employment. Nuclear and chemical weapons have always been an interest between the two. A Stalemate, escalation, or an agreement.
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 from 1941-45, the Soviet occupation forces in the northern part of the country presented him to the North Korean people as a hero. In mid-1993, 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 basically means controlling everyone under one rule. Overall, political management is highly personalized and is based on loyalty to Kim IL Sung and the Korean Workers' Party. The cult of personality and the strong influence of former anti-Japanese partisan veterans and military leaders are unique features of North Korean
The man, the legend, the one and only, supreme leader, Kim Jong Un. Standing at a height of 5’9, and 210 pounds, he is one of the world’s youngest supreme leaders, and in under 4 years, has managed to continue his own father’s legacy. Kim Jong Un has managed to successfully take complete control of North Korea just like his past family members who have been in power. At age 32 the supreme leader happens to own the longest list of honorifics anywhere, in which every single one of them is unearned, and is also most likely the last hereditary male in power. Kim is the third and youngest son of his father, and the second-born son of Kim II’s second mistress, Ko Young Hee. His grandfather, Kim Il Sung, ruled for 46 years, with Kim Jong Il, his son, taking over after his death in 1994. Kim Jong Un took power after his father's death in 2011, in which he was favored for by his father. Kim Jong Un has two older brothers, named Kim Jong-Chul and Kim Jong-Nam, who should’ve been next in line, but weren’t when their father decided to not make either one supreme leader because they were too “feminine in character”, while Jong-un was "exactly like his father". Around the same time he took power, he got married, in an arranged marriage, to a woman named, Ri Sol Ju, who is a former cheerleader and singer. Mrs. Kim is seen a lot with her husband in public. (unlike his
The government structure of North Korea has its existence in one man, Kim Jong Un. It existed in his father, Kim Jong Il, before him, and in his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, before him. North Korea has one of the few successful hereditary dictatorships based on a personalistic regime where the leaders are worshipped as almost a deity (after Kim Il-sung’s death he was made “eternal president”) creating a dynastic transfer of power (Aoki, 2012). In China the one party of the Chinese Communist Party will rule as an Authoritarian body over the nation, but in North Korea the sole power rest dangerously in the arms of one person. Some of the reason for this dissimilarity between the two government structures lies in the country’s differing political cultures.
ABC News stated, “North Korea: Lives of luxury for elite as Kim Jong-un rolls out nationwide reform to combat widespread poverty.” The strict set of rules North Korea lives by is setting the nation up for failure. Their leader is a temperamental, immature, and power hunger man that will lead that nation to defeat. Kim Jong-un is testing with nuclear weapons and is threatening us and many of our allies. Jong-un is spending the money that can be used to help the nation thrive to help him gain personally. There is said to still be an estimated 120,000 prisoners still in labor camps. At these labor camps, torture and executions are common.
Thus began the Korean War, which would last for three years. By the time an armistice was signed in July 1953, 2.5 million people had died and the line of division remained. After the war South Korea flourished but North Korea remained an economic basket case and a police state which has been ruled by the same family for three generations. First came Kim Il-Sung, then his son Kim Jong-Il, and now the grandson Kim Jong-Un. Kim Jong-Un became the world's youngest head of state, after elevating himself from First Secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea to Supreme leader of North Korea.
Moreover, DPRK’s foreign policy since the 1970s focused on forceful unification of Korean Peninsula and spreading communist revolution in the South. It has to be remembered that an official doctrine till the end of the 1970s ideologically and practically postulated communization of the south on the basis of military intervention . Since that time North Korea placed its spies in the East Asia and started sheltering revolutionists and terrorists from all over the world, among others nine members of radical left-wing group called the Japanese Fraction of the Red Army who skyjacked a Japanese airplane to Pyongyang in March 1970 . Furthermore, North Korea has been for many years developing its nuclear program and numerously threatening to use it what obviously attracts attention of the whole world .
Kim Il-sung had ultimate control over his people as he had the military to enforce his laws. If a citizen dared to speak up against the government, he and his family would be thrown into horrendous prisons for the next three generations. What makes North Korea different than Rwanda and Haiti is that poverty there was a normal part of life. Kim Il-sung cut off communication with the outside world. He controlled television and radio services to ensure that his people were ignorant that their lives were much worse than the rest of the world. Similar to Haiti, North Koreans were faced with hunger and a lack of basic necessities to live comfortably. A rigid system in North Korea made it impossible for families of lower class to improve their status because of tainted family history. Unlike Haiti’s vacillating government, North Korea was dominated by totalitarianism. North Koreans were taught to believe that they lived in the best place on earth, when in reality, they lived in poverty and domination. Their perception of their lives was caused by the culture that Kim Il-sung created. He instilled loyalty using media, force, and religious practices. This is similar to Rwanda because the Hutus and Tutsis were also taught to believe in the ethnic divisions hat separated them through school systems, religion, and
North Korea is a country that is ruled by a dictator and has a communist government. A communist government rules all the land and gives the same amount of money and supplies to all the people in the country. “Daily Necessities were obtained from the Public Distribution System (PDS)” (95,Hassig). The PDS shut down in 1995 because foreign aid was cut off expect for Pyongyang, the capital city. In rural areas, a lot of the children were born as “no-count” meaning that when they were born they weren’t counted as part of the existing society and didn’t have supplies given to them. North Korea was once a unified country with South Korea until September 9, 1948 when it became a separate country. From 1910 to 1945 Japan had ruled
The current dictator of North Korea is Kim Jong Un. Although it is not confirmed, it is believed that Kim was born in the early 1980’s and is in his early thirties. (Kim Jong UN Fast Facts Cnn Libary.)On December 31, 2011, Kim became dictator after his father, the previous dictator, Kim Jong il, passed away. This shows that Kim quickly rose to power as a dictator at a young age. Under Kim’s rule, North Koreahas carried out 5 nuclear tests in less than six years. ( Business Insider) This is an important point because Kim’s use of nuclear bombs has caused panic and fear throughout the world, including the United States. These are a few different ways Kim Jong Un Is