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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]
Plans for a personality cult revolving around Pol Pot were drawn up, based on the Chinese and North Korean models, in the belief that such a cult would unify the population in wartime. [326] Large photographs of Pol Pot began to be placed in communal dining halls, [ 327 ] while oil paintings and busts of him were produced. [ 328 ]
The Sister offers a profile of the enigmatic Kim Yo Jong (b. 1987), [1] [4] sister to Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea. Both siblings are the third generation in the Kim dynasty, [1] preceded by their father Kim Jong-Il, and their grandfather and founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung.
The August faction incident (Korean: 8월 종파 사건), officially called the "Second Arduous March", [1] was an attempted removal of Kim Il Sung from power by leading North Korean figures from the Soviet-Korean faction and the Yan'an faction, with support from the Soviet Union and China, at the 2nd Plenary Session of the 3rd Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 1956.
The tree is 4.5m in circumference at root neck, 4.6m in circumference at breast height, 17m in diameter from east to west, 26m from north to south, and 16m in tree height. At a height of 1.5m and 2m, the tree split into three branches and slanted slightly towards the Daedonggang River. The tree cap is kite-shaped.
With an active duty army consisting of 4.9% of its population, North Korea maintains the fourth largest active military force in the world behind China, India and the United States. [208] About 20 percent of men aged 17–54 serve in the regular armed forces, [208] and approximately one in every 25 citizens is an enlisted soldier. [209] [210]
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Sun Myung Moon was born Yong Myung Moon on 6 January 1920 [29] in modern-day North P'yŏng'an Province, North Korea, at a time when Korea was under Japanese rule. He was the second son in a farming family of thirteen children, [ 30 ] eight of whom survived. [ 16 ]