North Korean school bearing portrait of leader

Near Hoeryong town, North Korea, 11-2003..A North Korean school bearing the portrait of deceased leader Kim Il Sung. ..Installed by the Soviets in 1948, Kim Il Sung maintained an iron-grip on the nation through a system of indoctrination, purges and terror. When the Great Leader died in 1994, his son?s succession rested on a divine right. . .North Korea is the world's most insular and totalitarian state. Ruled by the messianic leader Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il since 1948, North Korea has stubbornly stuck to its juche (self-reliance) ideology and siege mentality, imposing one Stalinist economic plan after another. Floods, droughts and mismanagement in the 1990s plunged the country into a preventable famine, killing up to three million, or 13 percent of the population. It now depends heavily on Chinese aid...

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Near Hoeryong town, North Korea, 11-2003..A North Korean school bearing the portrait of deceased leader Kim Il Sung. ..Installed by the Soviets in 1948, Kim Il Sung maintained an iron-grip on the nation through a system of indoctrination, purges and terror. When the Great Leader died in 1994, his son?s succession rested on a divine right. . .North Korea is the world's most insular and totalitarian state. Ruled by the messianic leader Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il since 1948, North Korea has stubbornly stuck to its juche (self-reliance) ideology and siege mentality, imposing one Stalinist economic plan after another. Floods, droughts and mismanagement in the 1990s plunged the country into a preventable famine, killing up to three million, or 13 percent of the population. It now depends heavily on Chinese aid...