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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]
Charles K. Armstrong writes in his book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World 1950–1992, that "Kim took North Korean arts in a direction that seemed specifically designed to ensure his father's favor: under his guidance, new films and operas focused as never before on the anti-Japanese struggle of Kim Il Sung and his comrades in ...
The film released on February 20, 2019, attracted 190,000 viewers on the first day and was number one in the box office. On the second day, it exceeded 2 million viewers, in total bringing in around 2.19 million audience members. This brings in cumulative sales of 20,007,508,194 won which is around 16,481,474.98 U.S dollars.
First North Korean feature film [5] [6] [7] 1950 May 1st of 1950: 1950년 5•1절 Kim Un-mong Hong Il-sung Documentary First color film produced in North Korea [4] 1950: Announcing to the World: 전 세계에 고함: Sang-in Cheon: Documentary: Released during Korean War [8] 1950: Righteous War: 정의의 전쟁: Documentary
With mounting evidence of human rights abuses in North Korea documented by NGOs and governments during the preceding three decades, since 2003 the UN General Assembly [21] and the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) [22] [23] [24] have repeatedly passed resolutions expressing their concerns about the violations of human rights in North Korea. [5] [25 ...
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.
North Korea, [d] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), [e] is a country in East Asia.It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Born in Ikuno Korea Town of Osaka, Japan, [7] [8] Ko's birth date and Japanese name in Japanese official records are 26 June 1952 and Takada Hime (高田姫), respectively. [3] Her father, Ko Gyon-tek, worked in an Osaka sewing factory run by Japan's ministry of war, [9] [10] a 16th-generation descendant of the Joseon scholar official, Go Deuk ...