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.

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Kim Il-Sung (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 is officially known as the "Dear Leader". 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's personality cult is largely based on historical revisionism and many absurd claims of his extraordinary (often supernatural) abilities and power. Some examples:

• The North Korean calendar begins in 1912, the year of Kim's birth, and his birthday (April 15) is a major holiday.
• During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, he fought in more than 100,000 battles in 15 years (over 20 battles a day). (While Kim was in the Soviet army, he never participated in actual combat.)
• While "fighting" against Japan, he performed such miracles as turning sand into rice and crossing rivers on leaflets.
• He scored eleven holes-in-one the first time he ever played a game of golf.
• He invented the hamburger.

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."

Quotes from Stalin

The Darwin-Stalin connection describes the brutal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who murdered millions of people, giving credit to Darwin's book for his outlook in life:

• "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." ~ to Churchill, 1945.

• "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem"

• "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

• "The only real power comes out of a long rifle."

• "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."

Quotes from Lenin

• “The way to crush the middle class is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

• "The best revolutionary is youth devoid of morals."

• "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

• "The goal of socialism is communism."

• "There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."

• "Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever." (see Public school values and Professor values)

Related Quotes from Others

• C.S. Lewis wrote:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber baron]]s than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. [1]

• "The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt." - Henry Ford

• "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson

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'etat
• 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)
• 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