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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 leader, Kim 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 of “Glávnoie 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.
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