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Kim Jong-il Part 1: Birth of North Korea

Real Dictators

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The War Between North and South Korea Continues

The crean peninsula, the crean people have a history that goes back a couple of thousand years. The current border, the north crean border with china and russia, was roughly set about 13 hundred years ago. For the north careans, in a sense, the war is still on. And one of the major ways that they maintain power is through a sort of theatrical victimhood. That the war was never completed. So there's still a struggle to be had.

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