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Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification. ISBN 978-89-8479-802-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2018. Lankov, Andrei (2007). North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5141-8. — (2015). The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. Oxford ...
Every North Korean is given a lapel badge when they turn 12 bearing the image of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and it must be worn whenever they leave home. Portraits of a dynasty: North Korea's ...
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung.
By converting North Korea into a "huge open museum", [5] Kim's goal in designating the sites was to solidify the North Korean cult of personality centered around him and his father Kim Il Sung. [2] In 1988, there were 27 such sites. [6] Today, there are more than 60.
The programme was made by ITN Productions, who had proposed a North Korean documentary to various channels under the title Let's All Go To North Korea.Channel 5's Director of Programmes Ben Frow was not interested in the project at first, but after Michael Palin was hired to front the programme, he changed his mind and decided to commission it for the channel.
A professor of Korean Studies at the University of Hamburg says the emotion is part of a cult of personality. Yvonne Schulz Zinda said, "The Kim rulers are exaggerated, almost godlike perceived."
The world's attitude toward North Korea tends to swing between playful mocking and genuine horror. Like dictatorships before it — namely, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia — North Korea tends to ...
Politics and Leadership in North Korea: The Guerilla Dynasty (2nd ed.). Oxon: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-138-18737-5. Cha, Victor, and Ramon Pacheco Pardo. Korea: A New History of South and North (Yale UP, 2023). Choe Su-nam; Pak Kum-il (2018). DPRK: Seven Decades of Creation and Changes (PDF). Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House.