Kim Il Sung Quotes

• Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Media, Departed, Assuming

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Intellectual, Foundation

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• North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Song, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta

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• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  Gary Ackerman

  Thinking, Perspective, Important

  "Code Pink Targets Congressman Gary Ackerman's Boat". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2008.

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• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Singing

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

  Henry Rollins

  Korea, Cities, Guy

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• Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

  Colin Powell

  Running, Thinking, Demon

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