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Kim Il-sung was born on April 15, 1912, Mangyongdae, (North) Korea. He was the communist dictator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) from 1948 until his death in 1994. Prior to his ascension to power in North Korea, Kim Il-sung was a guerilla resistance fighter against the Japanese during the occupation of Korea. He was later recognized by Soviet military officials to be a potential Korean ally and was brought to the Soviet Union for political and military training. After World War II, Kim Il-sung was made the Premier of North Korea, which signaled the age of a totalitarian and oppressive regime on a divided Korean peninsula (Britannica). During Kim Il-sung’s rule in North Korea from 1948 to 1994, he established a totalitarian communist regime as the dictator by eliminating political rivals through force (Lew and Yu). In 1950, Kim Il-sung attempted to unify Korea, starting the Korean War with the invasion of South Korea. The Korean War …show more content…

Because of North Korea’s isolation from the outside world, there are no confirmed statistics or hard evidences of the atrocities committed by the North Korean government under Kim Il-sung. However, with the testimonies of North Korean defectors, it is most probable that Kim Il-sung was responsible for the deaths of between 710,000 to 3,500,000 North Korean citizens. In North Korea, there are concentration and forced labor camps that are used to jail and execute any North Koreans who were found guilty of being un-loyal to Kim Il-sung and the government (Rummel). However, because of the personality cult in North Korea that paints Kim Il-sung as a hero and god, most of the North Korean population were taught to follow Kim Il-sung with absolute loyalty or face death. To the rest of the world, however, Kim Il-sung is remembered as a ruthless dictator who was responsible for the deaths of many innocent

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