the great sun and the flower swallows the religious origins of human rights abuse in north korea
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The Great Sun and the
Flower SwallowsThe Religious Origins of
Human Rights Abuse in North Korea
Image: University of Texas http://www.library.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/korean_peninsula_rel_2011.jpg
Korean peninsula
Ruins of Hamhung NK in the Korean WarImage: CNN
Flag of North Korea
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
Hammurabi
1772 BC Babylon
“The Divine King”
Dionysius I367 BC
Syracuse (Sicily)“A Man of the
People”Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 5
Alexander 330 BC Greece
“Unconquerable for all time”
Diodorus, Library of History, Bk. 17
Augustus Caesard.14 AD
Roman Empire“Divus
Augustus”“Divine
Augustus”
Cosimo de Medici
1400 Florence, Italy“Pater Patriae”“Father of the Fatherland”
Louis XIV1700 | France
“The Sun King”
Shaka Zulu
1800Zulu kingdom“You who are as large as the world”
Benito Mussolini
1922Italy
“Il Duce”“The Leader”
Josef Stalin1924 | Soviet Union
“To the great friend of children—glory to the great Stalin!”
Adolf Hitler
1933Germany
“Der Fürher”“The Leader”
Mao Zedong1949 | China
“Great Helmsman”
François Duvalier
1957 Haiti
“Papa Doc”
Nicolai Ceaucescu1965 | Romania
“Conducător” “Leader”
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”
Kim Il SungRule: 1946-1994
Savior
Image: http://www.mhpbooks.com/kim-il-sung-first-leader-of-north-korea-was-born-101-years-ago-today/
Provider/Benefactor
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/7076011447/
Lawgiver
Image: pbase – Brian J. McMorrow
Friend of his people
Images: http://nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.com/2011/12/death-of-dear-leader.html; http://or1entalist.tumblr.com/post/40756542283
Father of his people
http://jamesthomassnyder.com/2012/07/27/how-dictators-kiss-babies/; http://www.lostmanproject.com/blog/asia/north-korea/deified
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/
Iconography
Image: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/15/nothing-to-envy-barbara-demick
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
Kim is worshiped as God
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~oh20j/classweb/pg6pictures.html
Ch’ŏllima workers movement
http://taedongtravel.com/places-of-interest/
Economic collapse
Image source: Mercy Corps; Daily Mail.co.uk
Difference in electricity
use between
North and South Korea
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/
Culture of spying
Image: telegraph.co.uk
Public executions
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/a-tale-from-the-hermit-kingdom-50524.html
Prison camps
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/north-korea.jpg
Hatred of the United States
http://mccrarey.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/north-korean-propaganda-
anti-usa-45.jpg
Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un
Image: Wikipedia, Daily Mail.co.uk
Image source: Mercy Corps; CNN http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/12/
Aid from Samaritan’s Purse, Mercy Corps
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
The end:Kim’s “eternal life” in the hearts of his
people
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/culture