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The Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang in 2014 depicting Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il (right), with visitors paying homage to the statues. [1]The North Korean cult of personality surrounding the Kim family [2] has existed in North Korea for decades and can be found in many examples of North Korean culture. [3]
The group is apocalyptic [9] and messianic in character, [12] and has been described as a doomsday cult. [12]The group's founder and leader is variously referred to by church followers as "Chairman Lee (이 총회장)"; "the Chairman (회장)"; "the Promised Pastor (약속의 목자)"; "the One who Overcomes (이긴자)"; or "the Advocate (대언자)."
In 1971, the first official criminal report and lawsuit was filed against the Tabernacle Temple and the leaders including Yoo Jae-Yeol. Amongst the followers who filed the complaints were Lee Man-hee and Hong Jae-ho, the founders of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, another pseudo-Christian group that is still active today in South Korea. [15]
HuffPost: “North Korea Proves Your White Male Privilege Is Not Universal.” USA Today: “UD Professor says Otto Warmbier got ‘what he deserved.’” “Bloody hell,” George remarked. “I get it, though,” I continued. Guys like Otto and me can go to North Korea, Chechnya, the corner store at 3 a.m. and not once have fear flood our minds.
[1] [a] North Korea officially recognizes Kim Il Sung's "first" guidance tour as a trip to a Pyongyang factory on 24 September 1945, but "whether this was really a guidance tour is doubtful," as Kim's local visits "were irregular and intermittent in the 1940s, rather than planned and routinized as they were in the 1950s and 1960s."
The Kapsan faction incident (Korean: 갑산파 사건) was an unsuccessful attempt to undermine the power of Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea, around the year 1967. The "Kapsan faction" was a group of veterans of the anti-Japanese struggle of the 1930s and 1940s that was initially close to Kim Il Sung.
Leader Symbols and Personality Cult in North Korea: The Leader State. New York: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-56740-0. Juliana Dowling & Dae Un Hong (2021). The Enshrinement of Nuclear Statehood in North Korean Law: Its Implications for Future Denuclearization Talks with North Korea. Illinois Law Review Online. 2021 Spring: 48–62. online
Odaesan – South Korea; Mount of Olives – Jerusalem, Israel/Palestine; Paektu Mountain – North Korea-China border. Sacred to all Koreans, also a subject of the North Korean cult of personality; Parasnath Shikharji – one of the holiest Jain pilgrim sites in India; Phnom Kulen – Cambodia; Mount Rainier – Washington state, United States.