Kim Jong-il

Essay 4 Kim Jong-Il's succession of his father, Kim Il-Sung, was not a simple process. Unlike North Korea's allies the USSR and China, North Korea's system of succession was well-established and very thorough. North Korea's system was not based on the idea that Jong-Il would just become the leader of the country. As stated in Lynn's Bipolar Orders, each stage of Jong-Il's ascension would test his political talents in order to prove that he would be able to take control of North Korea effectively

Outside of North Korea many saw Kim Jong-il as being an improper leader, but those inside and unaware of his true nature, saw him as a moral leader who cared for his people and tried to do anything and everything for them. Although Kim Jong-il is a terrible leader as he mismanaged his nation and ignored his people, through dynamic leadership he was able to manipulate his people by encouraging loyalty and support for the regime, posing as a symbol of not only the government, but also North Korea as

Kim Il Sung, originally born Kim Song-ju, was born on April 15, 1912. Kim was born in a dark time for the Koreans due to the occupation of Korea by Japan. It was around this time when North Koreans grew tired of being Japan’s puppets, and they were ready for a true Korean to stand up for them and take back their beloved country. Kim IL Sung was not born to become anyone important, and he was certainly not born to become the future dictator of North Korea. Kim’s family came from nowhere special they

Paragraph Although Kim Jong il had some good leadership qualities, overall he was a harmful leader for North Korea. The first reason he was an awful leader is because Kim Jong il was very irresponsible for his country. For example, after the Cold War North Korea fell into poverty and famine. Kim Jong il didn’t attempt to fix the problems of poverty after the war because he focused on the policy of “songun” where all of the country's scarce resources and food go to the military. Kim Jong il used some of

English 205 20 May 2013 Kim Jong-Il’s Reign There is little known about the true inside of North Korea, but what we do know is that yields a powerful dictatorship across its people. This dictatorship all began less than 100 years ago and has a very short history. A brief description of Korea’s history, from History.com, shows how the country split into two completely different countries: Japan annexed the Korean peninsula in 1910, and the country spent the next 35 years under Japanese military

Power: Kim Jong-Il A coercive leader leads through fear and intimidation. The key fundamental in this leadership style is making your followers aware that their failure will ultimately cause some form of punishment. This can take many forms and has been demonstrated on many scales through history. Your boss at work that punishes you with extra work should you fail to succeed at a task is one example. I believe the most coercive leader in our world today is Kim Jong-Il. Kim Jong-Il has been

Kim-Jong-il was the leader of North Korea from 1994-2011. He was a dictator of a country that is widely believed to have the worst human rights in the world, and this shows in the way he ruled the country with often little regard to the individual person. He is overall a Machiavellian dictator, as many of the ways in which he lead North Korea are in adherence to Machiavelli’s statements, examples of which being how he was presented as having all good qualities and how he was not afraid of hurting

reverence and respect. These traits are seen in rulers like Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe and Hussein. However, there is one dictator set apart from the rest--the North Korean former President Kim Jong Il. It is Il’s eccentricities, of which there are many, distinguish from the other members of Dictator’s Club. Kim Jong Il has been characterized by many renowned

29 April 2015 Whitt Tyrants, Dictators, and Democrats Kim Jong-il Kim Jong-il was the supreme leader of North Korea from July of 1994 until his untimely death on December 17th, 2011. His reign as dictator is defined by most as successful but he will go down as one of the most dangerous dictators the world has ever seen. The people of North Korea looked up to Kim Jong-il as a god-like figure. No one really knows the exact year that Kim Jong-il was born. He was born in either 1941 or 1942 in Vyatskoye

equal to that of Nazi Germany? Was it during the reign of Kim ll-sung or Kim Jong-il? Arguments can be made that the crimes did start under the reign of these two leaders, but the real culprit behind the crimes against humanity is Kim Jong-un the current supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The issues within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea start on the top with leader Kim Jong-un. Supreme leader Kim Jong-un has provide a bad reputation for himself due to