Kim Il-sung

Kim Il Sung was the first leader of The Democratic People's Republic of Korea who died in 1994 at the age of 82 after a heart attack.

Kim Il-Sung (김일성) born "Kim Sŏng-ju" (김성주) (1912-1994) was the dictatorial leader of Communist North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) from 1948 until his death. He led the country into the Korean War of 1950-53 by his invasion of South Korea. Kim created an absolutist tyranny in North Korea. Within the country he was officially known as the "Great Leader", and, despite having died, occupies the position of "Eternal President" in the North Korean Constitution. He was succeeded as leader by his son Kim Jong Il, who was officially known as the "Dear Leader".

Kim was born on April 15, 1912, (the same day the Titanic sank), to Kang Pan-sŏk and Kim Hyŏng-jik, into a Christian family.

Kim Il Sung was an obese atheist who died of a heart attack.

Wesley Pruden calls him the "chief architect of the misery in North Korea."

Cult of Personality

The North Korean state maintains an intense cult of personality surrounding Kim. All North Koreans wear badges with his image, and portraits of the deceased leader are ubiquitous throughout the nation. The capital city of Pyongyang has over 600 statues of Kim, including a 25-meter-tall bronze statue built in 1972 for his sixtieth birthday.

Kim il-sung's personality cult is often largely exaggerated by western media or are conflated through language barrier and korean folklore

One of the infamous cases of Kim Il-Sung's cult of personality is with the Juche Calendar, The Juche calendar begins in 1912, the year of Kim's birth, and his birthday (April 15) is a major holiday. In the present year (2021) the year would be 'Juche 110'.

U.S. Nemesis

Kim was a vocal opponent of U.S. society, government and freedoms. Despite being the aggressor in the Korean War, he blamed the U.S. for the conflict and openly advocated the destruction of American society. In a 1972 interview, he told the New York Times that the "most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism."

See also

• Kim Jong-Il
• Kim Jong-un
• Park Chung-hee
• Dictatorship
  • Dictator
  • List of dictators
  • Friendly dictator
  • Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, Kim Jong-Il, Pol Pot
  • Dictatorship of the proletariat
  • List of Communist States
  • List of Socialist States
  • Death toll of communism
  • Coup d'état
• Cult of personality
• Single-party state
• Mobocracy, Social Effects of the Theory of Evolution, Anti-Semitism, Communist Racism, Genocide, Holocaust
• National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party)
• National Socialism - the Nazis were elitist Police state liberals not conservatives
• Big government Welfare state leads to Nanny state, leads to Police state: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-Communist
• Liberal totalitarianism