Kim Jong-Il

Kim Jong Il
Personal life
Date and place of birth	February 16, 1941 Vyatskoye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Parents	Kim Il Sung Kim Jong-suk
Claimed religion	Atheist
Education	Kim Il-sung University
Spouse	Kim Young Sook Song Hye-rim Ko Young-hee Kim Ok
Children	Kim Sul-song Kim Il-soon Kim Jong-nam Kim Jong-chul Kim Jong Un
Date & Place of Death	December 17, 2011
Manner of Death	n/a
Place of burial	n/a
Dictatorial career
Country	North Korea
Military service	n/a
Highest rank attained	None
Political beliefs	Communism
Political party	Workers' Party of Korea
Date of dictatorship	July 8, 1994
Wars started	Minor skirmishes with South Korea
Number of deaths attributed	2,000,000 to 3,000,000+

Kim Jong Il (Hangul:김정일; Hanja:金正日) (born February 16, 1941, in Vyatskoye, Russia; died December 17, 2011) was the dictator of North Korea. He came to power in 1994 and died in 2011. He was also the leader of the North Korean Communist party (officially, the Worker's Party of Korea). He was criticized for extensive human rights abuses in North Korea. Over one million people in North Korea have starved to death as a result of his corrupt government, disastrous agricultural polices, and refusal to accept international aid.

He came into power in 1994, after his father Kim Il Sung died, remained the North Korean leader until his death. He was an atheist and an intense persecutor of Christians and other organized religions. He was in conflict with the world community over the building of nuclear weapons, but seems to relish the attention. Kim claimed North Korea has built a nuclear weapon.

Kim was only 5 feet 3 inches tall, but styled his hair in an exaggerated fashion to appear to be taller leading some to speculate he had a Napoleon Complex.

Kim Jong Il was also thought to be a hypochondriac, as well as his chronic fear of flying. He traveled by a custom built armored train. He was also famous also for his lavish lifestyle, having been known to have at one time abducted a Japanese sushi chef for the sole purpose of making sushi for his "high exaltedness".

Cult of personality

Although not to the same extent as Kim Il Sung, North Koreans venerated Kim Jong Il under a similar cult of personality. Some examples of Kim Jong Il's personality cult:

• He was born under a double rainbow on the sacred Baektul Mountain in 1942. At the moment of his birth, a bright star lit up the sky, the seasons spontaneously changed from winter to spring and a double rainbow appeared in the sky. (In truth, he was born in Vyatskoye, Siberia in 1941.)
• At the age of four, "he smeared a Japanese map with black ink, then a stormy rain poured down on Japan."

Military First

"Military First" is a program begun around the beginning 2007 in communist North Korea to elevate the power of the military and the dictator Kim Jong Il over the North Koreans. The program uses mind control techniques through manipulation of the media and culture.

Despite famine and poverty in North Korea, nearly 40% its budget is spent on glorifying and deifying the family of its ruler, Kim Jong Il.

Quotes from Kim Jong-Il

Comparative quotes are given from the top 5 Left-wing-Socialist-Marxist-Communist leaders in order to better understand the commonality of the end result of their liberal philosophy taken to its fruition by the Big government Welfare state-Nanny state-Police state by leftist Globalist-Statist-Socialist-Communists.

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 Il Sung
• Kim Jong-un
• 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

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