
Kim Jong-il Part 1: Birth of North Korea
Real Dictators
Kimil Sung and the Workers Party in North Korea
The communist guorilla movement has morfed into a full blown political party. Kimil sung is widely as a triumphant warrior, the man responsible for driving out the hated japanese. His workers party forms a government and assumes power in the north. The party sits right at the heart of north korean life. It will come to dominate all aspects of society. And by privileges, i mean food, meat, rice and things like that. But the party is also the justice system. Any one who disagrees with the cult of personality, any one who challenges the authority, can be punished very harshly. Right up to, of course, the well known large gulag prison camp system
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