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Unpacking the unique Kim father-son relationship further, 'The Son of God' tracks the decline of Kim Il Sung and the rise of his son, Kim Jong Il. Nuclear Family After the Cold War, Kim Jong Il takes complete control of the country and starts a nuclear weapons program.
May 26, 2014 · Myers cites the example of the North Korean novel, Gun Barrel, in which “a visiting American concludes that Kim Jong Il [the son of Kim Il Sung] is the messiah” (p. 111). It’s almost reminiscent of Jesus’ reply, “ You have said so ” when Pilate asks him if he is the king of the Jews.
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Kim Il-sung, the most respected of the Kim dynasty, is credited with a playing a key role in liberating Korea during World War II before he came to power. The official story is that he single-handedly defeated the Japanese in North Korea. But is that right? We know that he was born Kim Song-ju, that his parents were anti-Japanese, that he moved to ...
In October 1945, when the Soviet Union presented their Kim Il-sung to North Korea, people were surprised by how young he was. "They said, 'Who was this guy with the Chinese waiter's haircut? We heard about the great general Kim Il-sung, but this guy looks much too young and callow to be he'," Mr Myers said. A huge Soviet propaganda campaign followe...
Compared to his father, Kim Jong-il was shorter, with an unprepossessing appearance, and not particularly extroverted, said Mr Myers. "Early film footage showed him to be so disengaged from what was happening around him," he said. Mr Martin said Kim Jong-il was raised as a "totally spoiled little monster, part of a clique of ruling class princeling...
When Kim Jong-il died suddenly of a heart attack in 2011, his third son, Kim Jong-un, assumed power. Mr Myers said they needed to pick somebody from inside his family, because so much of the legitimacy of the state still derived from the myth of Kim Il-sung. "When you take Kim Il-sung out of the propaganda mythical landscape, there's really nothing...
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Background. Murals of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Jangdae hill in Pyongyang. According to Suh Dae-sook, the cult of personality surrounding the Kim family requires total loyalty and subjugation to the Kim family and establishes the country as a one-man dictatorship through successive generations. [8] .
Nov 11, 2018 · The Son of God: Unpacking the unique Kim father-son relationship further, "Son of God" tracks the decline of Kim Il Sung and the rise of his son, Kim Jong Il.
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Dec 27, 2011 · It built powerful personality cults around both Kim Jong-il and his father and is now beginning to do the same with his son and successor, Kim Jong-un.
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Jan 31, 2015 · Sun of the East: The Rebirth of a Nation | Yet before he could become a god, Kim Il-sung was born a man named Kim Song-ju. Whilst those gathered at his son’s nativity beneath Mount Paektu at once perceived his birth miraculous, Kim Il-sung’s hagiography describes a more conventional journey from infancy to adolescence.
