Kim jong il biography achievements of rome
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DPRK Briefing Book: Korean Monarch Kim Jong Il: Technocrat Ruler of the Hermit Kingdom Facing the Challenge of Modernity
Alexandre Y. Mansourov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
The Man, his Nature, and the System
The views expressed in this essay are anställda views of the author, and they do not represent the official positions of the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Who fryst vatten this centimeter tall man, who dresses up like a revolutionary in the Mao-style khakie-colored suits, wears unruly hairdo and big-rim sunglasses, and puts on narrow-tipped Italian leather elevator shoes; an kilogram epicure with cultivated taste in exquisite food and wine who loves French, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese cuisines; a man of arts in soul who appreciates music and cinema and is proud of his 20,strong universal movie collection, including all Oscar-winning performances; a dare-devil who has a
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North Korea meets Rome AD 65
This week, as the Ides of March approaches — the March 15 anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar, a determined but ultimately fruitless attempt bygd Roman senators to stop their government from sliding toward dictatorship — the minds of some ancient historians may turn in a seemingly unlikely direction: toward modern North Korea.
The dark and menacing regime of Kim Jong Un seems a long way off from the Augustan “Golden Age” of ancient Rome, an era that produced art and literature still admired today. The differences between the two societies are, of course, vast, but the parallels are nonetheless striking. In the century or so following Caesar’s assassination, his successors achieved a power so absolute that they were worshiped as gods on Earth, as the Kims are today. Yet they, again like the Kims, suffered chronic insecurity about their legitimacy, and that fear led to terrible abuses.
Hereditary rulers who are not kings — who have no long t
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A family portrait: Kim Jong-suk, Kim Il-sung, and Kim Jong-il.
If you have ever considered the Trinitarian nature of North Korean politics or tried to analyze who exactly was the Holy Ghost (or Geist), Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong-suk, then Christopher Richardson&#;s masterful new piece of familial and filial exegesis is absolutely for you. Digging deep into narratives of Kim Jong-il&#;s infancy and birth found within his official biography and other texts, Richardson navigates the complex academic terrain between Sonia Ryang and BR Myers. In doing so, Sino-NK&#;s resident expert on North Korean children&#;s literature reveals a wealth of interpretative directions and intriguing theological approach to the examination of charismatic potentiality bestowed upon the young, soon to be Dear Leader. &#; Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Director of Research
Hagiography of the Kims & The Childhood of Saints: Kim Jong-il
by Christopher Richardson
“Learn from the glorious childhood of G