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The Great Sun and the
Flower SwallowsThe Religious Origins of
Human Rights Abuse in North Korea
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Image: University of Texas http://www.library.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/korean_peninsula_rel_2011.jpg
Korean peninsula
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Ruins of Hamhung NK in the Korean WarImage: CNN
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Flag of North Korea
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How Dictators Imitate God’s Characteristics
• LIGHT – I John 1:5• SAVIOR – Rom. 5:9, Col. 2:15• PROVIDER/BENEFACTOR – Matt.5:45• LAWGIVER – Deut. 26:16, John 13:34• FRIEND – Jn. 15:14-15, Is. 53:3-4, Phil.
2:7-8• FATHER and LEADER – Matt. 6:9, 16:24
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Hammurabi
1772 BC Babylon
“The Divine King”
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Dionysius I367 BC
Syracuse (Sicily)“A Man of the
People”Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 5
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Alexander 330 BC Greece
“Unconquerable for all time”
Diodorus, Library of History, Bk. 17
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Augustus Caesard.14 AD
Roman Empire“Divus
Augustus”“Divine
Augustus”
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Cosimo de Medici
1400 Florence, Italy“Pater Patriae”“Father of the Fatherland”
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Louis XIV1700 | France
“The Sun King”
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Shaka Zulu
1800Zulu kingdom“You who are as large as the world”
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Benito Mussolini
1922Italy
“Il Duce”“The Leader”
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Josef Stalin1924 | Soviet Union
“To the great friend of children—glory to the great Stalin!”
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Adolf Hitler
1933Germany
“Der Fürher”“The Leader”
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Mao Zedong1949 | China
“Great Helmsman”
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François Duvalier
1957 Haiti
“Papa Doc”
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Nicolai Ceaucescu1965 | Romania
“Conducător” “Leader”
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Kim Il Sung1946-1994North Korea“Great General”
“Great Leader” “Dear Leader”
“Great Sun” “Sun of the Nation”
“Genius of Revolution” “Parent” “Legendary
Hero” “Ever-Victorious Iron-
Willed Brilliant Commander”
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Kim Il SungRule: 1946-1994
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Savior
Image: http://www.mhpbooks.com/kim-il-sung-first-leader-of-north-korea-was-born-101-years-ago-today/
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Provider/Benefactor
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/7076011447/
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Lawgiver
Image: pbase – Brian J. McMorrow
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Friend of his people
Images: http://nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.com/2011/12/death-of-dear-leader.html; http://or1entalist.tumblr.com/post/40756542283
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Father of his people
http://jamesthomassnyder.com/2012/07/27/how-dictators-kiss-babies/; http://www.lostmanproject.com/blog/asia/north-korea/deified
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Verbal propaganda
Image: http://world.time.com/2013/04/12/death-to-puppet-traitors-and-other-north-korean-rallying-cries/photo/people-take-part-in-an-oath-taking-meeting-before-the-statues-of-kim-il-sung-and-kim-jong-il-on-mansudae-hill-in-pyongyang/
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Iconography
Image: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/15/nothing-to-envy-barbara-demick
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http://nation.time.com/2013/04/15/take-cover-its-kim-il-sungs-101st-birthday/; http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/01/north-korean-propaganda; http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-156365/The-Tower-of-the-Juche-Idea-standing-560-feet-tall
Pageantry
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Kim is worshiped as God
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~oh20j/classweb/pg6pictures.html
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Ch’ŏllima workers movement
http://taedongtravel.com/places-of-interest/
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Economic collapse
Image source: Mercy Corps; Daily Mail.co.uk
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Difference in electricity
use between
North and South Korea
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Flower swallows
Image source: New Focus International http://newfocusintl.com/a-country-whose-children-wish-to-be-orphaned/
http://scottbrownscerebralcaffeine.wordpress.com/tag/flowering-swallows/
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Culture of spying
Image: telegraph.co.uk
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Public executions
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/a-tale-from-the-hermit-kingdom-50524.html
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Prison camps
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/north-korea.jpg
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Hatred of the United States
http://mccrarey.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/north-korean-propaganda-
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Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un
Image: Wikipedia, Daily Mail.co.uk
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Image source: Mercy Corps; CNN http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/12/
Aid from Samaritan’s Purse, Mercy Corps
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Image source: Daily Mail; Mercy Corps http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-486079/PETER-HITCHENS-North-Korea-great-Marxist-bastion-real-life-
Truman-show.html; and http://www.mercycorps.org/articles/north-korea/food-north-koreas-families
Remember the people
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The end:Kim’s “eternal life” in the hearts of his
people
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/culture