The Deaf Leader of North Korea and His Reign of Terror

Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, both â€Å"suryongs†Ã¢â‚¬â€the leaders, mainly utilized terror to maintain their sovereignty in Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim Il Sung was a communist dictator of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 1948 to 1994. He was born on April 15th, 1912 near Pyongyang and received military and political training Soviet Union. Kim Il Sung also formed the provisional government in North Korea after Japanese’s surrender in World War II, through which he obtained authority in his political party—Korean Workers’ Party—and eventually became â€Å"The Great Leader†. (Higgins, Kim Il-Sung) Kim Il Sung also invented â€Å"Cult of Personality†, which was an organized effort to persuade North Koreans to worship him and to accept his†¦show more content†¦Kim Jung Il saw Jang Song Taek as a potential rival and immediately discharged him from his position. Again, these frequent similarly repeated purges left the citizens to think both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il are extremely powerful as they are able to dismiss and even execute anyone they want in the country. This amplified the effect of nationalism and Cult of Personality and allowed Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to earn more control. Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il’s terror of their own citizens extended with the invention of Stalin’s Gulag-style slave labor camps in North Korea. Another method both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il utilized terror was through slave labor camps, also known as Kwan-li-sos or Kyo-hwa-sos. Kwan-li-sos were forced-labour camps for political prisoners and kyo-hwa-sos were mostly for those serving out sentences as common criminals. However, in either camp, there was usually no release. (Rikflin, The Gulag behind the Goose-steps) The major camps are spread around the nation but far way from Pyongyang, like kwan-li-so 22 at Heoryong, in extreme northeastern North Korea and kyo-hwa-so 12 in Chongo-ri, 10 to 20 kilometers south of Hoeryong. (Joshua and Bielefeld, North Korea’s Largest Concentration Camps) Any person suspected of disloyalty to the â€Å"suryong†, one convicted of a common crime, or political offenders were all punished with an imprisonment in one of the 12 slave labor camps. By 2012, it was thought to be about 200,000Show MoreRelatedMarketing Mistakes and Successes175322 Words   |  702 Pageshe taught at the University of Minnesota and George Washington University. His MBA and Ph.D. are from the University of Minnesota, with a BBA from Drake University. Before coming into academia, he spent thirteen years in retailing with the predecessor of Kmart (S. S. Kresge), JCPenney, and Dayton-Hudson and its Target subsidiary. He held positions in store management, central buying, and merchandise management. His first textbook, Marketing: Management and Social Change, was published in 1972