Jonathan Cheng
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201 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Jun
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And I don't know that you are even aware that you have any other choices.
So I would say that, yes, in some respects, it is real.
It is within the narrow confines of the reality that they are permitted to understand.
It really starts from the cradle.
The very first words that you learn to speak if you're North Korean are praises to Kim Il-sung.
You learn to say, thank you, Father Kim Il-sung, for the food that you get in nursery school.
The first things you are taught to write when you're a young child in North Korea are to write the name Kim Il-sung.
It is woven into the curriculum.
You'll take Kim Il-sung I. You'll take Kim Il-sung II.
You'll study the childhood of him.
And almost any paper that you write will need to be prefaced with a quotation, a choice quotation from the great leader of North Korea.
By the time you're a grown adult,
there really is no alternative.
He really is almost like a genuine father figure.
And as with the Christian context, there is an understanding in North Korea that you have a physical biological father, just like all of us have a physical biological father, but you also have this other father, a spiritual heavenly father, you could almost say.
And
Kim Il-sung indeed instructed his people to call him Father, capital F. And so that is how he's regarded by almost all North Koreans.
I think he probably knows better.
He did go to school in Switzerland.
He did have some engagement with the outside world.
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