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ORIGIN OF NORTH KOREA AND ITS COMUNIST REGIME

Following Japan’s defeat in 1945 the Soviet Union and United States agreed to split the post-war control of the Korean peninsula between them. On August 10, 1945 two young U.S. military officers drew up a line demarcating the U.S. and Soviet occupation zones at the 38th parallel. The divide should have been temporary; a mere footnote in Korea’s long history, but the emergence of the Cold War made this a seminal event. Seeking to ensure the maintenance of their respective influences in Korea, the U.S. and USSR installed leaders sympathetic to their own cause, while mistrust on both sides prevented cooperation on elections that were supposed to choose a leader for the entire peninsula. The United States handed control over the southern half of the peninsula to Syngman Rhee, while the Soviet Union gave Kim Il-sung power over the north. In 1948, both sides claimed to be the legitimate government and representative of the entire Korean people.

RECENT NEWS ABOUT NORTH KOREA

NORTH KOREAN LEADERS

The Kim dynasty, officially called Mount Paektu Bloodline, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership descending from the country's first leaderKim Il-sung, in 1948. Kim came to rule the North after the end of Japanese control in 1945 split the region. He began the Korean War in 1950 in an attempt to reunify the peninsula. Kim developed a cult of personality closely tied to their state philosophy of Juche, which was passed on to his successors: his son Kim Jong-il and grandson Kim Jong-un.

KIM IL-SUNG:
Kim Il-Sung is known as the founder and first president of the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Kim was born to a small peasant family but they were soon forced to flee following the Japanese occupation of his homeland. After moving to China, Kim soon became radicalized and joined forces that were committed to defying the occupiers. Even as an early teen, he was involved with armed resistance activity and as a young man he was promoted to a leadership role. Driven by his anti-Japanese sentiments, he sided with the Soviet Union in the World War, where he trained and fought along with the Soviet soldiers against the Japanese. He eventually rose to the ranks of a leader in the Soviet military. At the end of the war, he was in a prime position to take over the mantle of leadership of his newly-liberated country. Seizing the opportunity, Kim and his forces soon overruled the entire peninsula but faced stiff resistance from foreign countries. After a bitter and devastating war, the peninsula was split in half and he became the undisputed leader of the northern half. Combining Communist and Marxist ideology with his own brand of Korean self-reliance, he soon forged himself as the shining leader of a new country. After ruling his country with an iron grip for half a century, the supreme leader passed away, leaving his country in the hands of a virtual monarchy.


KIM JONG-IL
Kim Jong-Il was born the 16th of February in 1941, and died the 17th of December in 201 was the supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, from 1994 to 2011. By the early 1980s Kim Jong-Il had become the heir apparent for the leadership of the country and assumed important posts in the party and army organs. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung, following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Politburo Standing Committee member of WPK, Chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world. Kim's leadership is thought to have been even more authoritarian than his father's.

 

KIM JONG-UN

Kim Jong-un  was born the 8th of January in 1984, is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea. Kim is the second child of Kim Jong-il (1941–2011). Before taking power, he had barely been seen in public, and many of the activities of both Kim and his government remain shrouded in secrecy. Even details such as what year he was born, and whether he did indeed attend a Western school under a pseudonym, are difficult to confirm with certainty. And is the one who is governing nowadays


 


INSTRUMENTS USED TO MANTAIN THE DICTATORIAL REGIME

Since the beginning of this dictatorship in the year 1984; each leader has introduced and changed many different laws. This long dictatorship has imposed a schedule for every inhabitant in North Korea. There are some rules that must be done strictly, for example, every time you see a statue or painting of the leader, you must show devotion to it. Another rule is that in the leader´s birthday you must go to the nearest statue and show allegiance to the leader. Also in this dictatorial regime, you cannot find properties, and every aspect of life is controlled by the Government. So, as a consequence, anyone who breaks the rules is sentenced to a public execution, where everyone must go, as well as the family, who must go to forced-labor camps, for three generations.

To sum up, the instruments and techniques used by North Korean leaders are three:
  • The control of the Government of the information and arbitrary laws.
  • The imposition of restrictions
  • And, the one more important I think is the lies told by the State, to make the leader seem a god to them, by watching propaganda or other lies, like, for example the number of books written by the leader.


GULAG: ITS MEANING AND SIMILARITIES IN NORTH KOREA

The word gulag is an acronym ofGlávnoie Upravlenie ispravítelno-trudovyj lagueréi i koloni”, that means General Directions of Field Prisons, and this is the name with which they would go down in history for fields of work for political prisoners in the Soviet Union of Stanlin that were spread across the coldest areas of Siberia.
In North-Korea there are also forced-labor camps, where the people who have been disrespectful with law, or have committed unreal crimes, and there they must stay all their life working in fields, mines, or cutting wood without getting paid either fed (just to survive), and the most shocking part, his or her family for three generations, must stay there all their lives!

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF A DICTATORSHIP

A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by the absolute rule of one person or a very small group of people who hold all political power.

1. One Party, One Leader and One Programme:

In dictatorship only one party is allowed to exist and it is the dictator's own party. Other political parties, associations and organizations are not allowed to func­tion. These are banned. All opposition to the dictator is ruthlessly suppressed.

2. Absence of Individual Liberty:

The individual does not enjoy any liberty or rights under dictatorship. Maximum obedience to the laws is equated to the maximum liberty. People are not allowed any liberty of speech, association and press.

3. National Glorification:

Dictators glorify their nations to an illogical extreme. A mad sense of patriotism is inculcated in the minds of the people. They are made intensely nationalistic.
The state is regarded as the march of God on earth. The state is considered to be the end and the individual a means to that end.

4. Glorification of War:

Dictators glorify war. War is considered to be essential for the normal health of body-politic. The state is all powerful and it must enhance its prestige. The dictators adopt a war-like policy and glorify brute force as the means for achieving national greatness.

5. Totalitarian State:

Dictatorship is a totalitarian state which controls each and every aspect of human personality, and takes into its fold all human activities in the social, economic, political, educational, religious and cultural spheres.
No margin for individual liberty is left behind.

6. Racialism:

Dictators preach racialism.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: NORTH KOREAN FAMILY AND TEENAGER VS SPANISH FAMILY AND TEENAGER

If I were a Korean guy, my life would be totally different in many ways such as human rights, technology, lifestyle… I wouldn´t have any rights, maybe I would be in a forced-labor camp, just because my parents have done something stupid such as cutting a rope in a mine; or maybe I would be attending school where the only thing I learnt were lies of my leader and of my country. I wouldn´t have any access to Internet or to any encyclopedia. Otherwise, here in Spain I can access easily to reliable information about our country´s history. I also can choose what to wear, where to leave, and surprisingly, how to cut my hair, because in Korea there are just 15 different styles of hair, either for women and men; and here in Spain you can tell your hairdresser how you want your hair has to be cut.

VIDEOS:
  • Koeran War
https://youtu.be/ss4dN6oqX68

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