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Kim Il-sung in Podcasts

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Kim Il-sung was the founding leader of North Korea, serving as its first supreme leader from 1948 until his death.

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The Religious Cult Behind North Korea’s Power (#303)

And there too, Kim Il-sung presented himself as a kind of spiritual messiah for the Korean people.

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The Religious Cult Behind North Korea’s Power (#303)

They were among the very, very first families to convert to Christianity in Korea, and they were among the most fervent believers, such that when Kim Il-sung was born in 1912,

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The Religious Cult Behind North Korea’s Power (#303)

But if you go back to his father and ultimately to his grandfather, the founder of the state, Kim Il-sung, that's really what this state is built around.

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The Religious Cult Behind North Korea’s Power (#303)

We know Kim Jong-un is the third generation leader of North Korea.

What I survived
Becoming Mr James: Undercover Inside North Korea

You only have to say the name and it evidently invokes images of a brutal regime, a country controlled by a dictatorship that stretches back to 1948, when the founder and first supreme leader Kim Il-sung took power.