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The Great Sun and the Flower Swallows

The Great Sun and the Flower Swallows. The 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. Image: CNN. Ruins of Hamhung NK in the Korean War.

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The Great Sun and the Flower Swallows

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  1. The Great Sun and the Flower Swallows The Religious Origins of Human Rights Abuse in North Korea

  2. Image: University of Texas http://www.library.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/korean_peninsula_rel_2011.jpg Korean peninsula

  3. Image: CNN Ruins of Hamhung NK in the Korean War

  4. Flag of North Korea

  5. 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

  6. Hammurabi 1772 BC Babylon “The Divine King”

  7. Dionysius I 367 BC Syracuse (Sicily) “A Man of the People” Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 5

  8. Alexander 330 BC Greece “Unconquerable for all time” Diodorus, Library of History, Bk. 17

  9. Augustus Caesar d.14 AD Roman Empire “Divus Augustus” “Divine Augustus”

  10. Cosimo de Medici 1400 Florence, Italy “Pater Patriae” “Father of the Fatherland”

  11. Louis XIV 1700 | France “The Sun King”

  12. Shaka Zulu 1800 Zulu kingdom “You who are as large as the world”

  13. Benito Mussolini 1922 Italy “Il Duce” “The Leader”

  14. Josef Stalin 1924 | Soviet Union “To the great friend of children—glory to the great Stalin!”

  15. Adolf Hitler 1933 Germany “DerFürher” “The Leader”

  16. Mao Zedong 1949 | China “Great Helmsman”

  17. François Duvalier 1957 Haiti “Papa Doc”

  18. Nicolai Ceaucescu 1965 | Romania “Conducător” “Leader”

  19. Kim Il Sung 1946-1994 North 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”

  20. Kim Il Sung Rule: 1946-1994

  21. Savior Image: http://www.mhpbooks.com/kim-il-sung-first-leader-of-north-korea-was-born-101-years-ago-today/

  22. Provider/Benefactor Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/7076011447/

  23. Lawgiver Image: pbase – Brian J. McMorrow

  24. Friend of his people Images: http://nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.com/2011/12/death-of-dear-leader.html; http://or1entalist.tumblr.com/post/40756542283

  25. Father of his people http://jamesthomassnyder.com/2012/07/27/how-dictators-kiss-babies/; http://www.lostmanproject.com/blog/asia/north-korea/deified

  26. 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/

  27. Iconography Image: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/15/nothing-to-envy-barbara-demick

  28. Pageantry 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

  29. Kim is worshiped as God http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~oh20j/classweb/pg6pictures.html

  30. Ch’ŏllima workers movement http://taedongtravel.com/places-of-interest/

  31. Economic collapse Image source: Mercy Corps; Daily Mail.co.uk

  32. Difference in electricityuse between North and South Korea

  33. 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/

  34. Culture of spying Image: telegraph.co.uk

  35. Public executions http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/canada/a-tale-from-the-hermit-kingdom-50524.html

  36. Prison camps http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/north-korea.jpg

  37. Hatred of the United States http://mccrarey.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/north-korean-propaganda-anti-usa-45.jpg

  38. Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un Image: Wikipedia, Daily Mail.co.uk

  39. Aid from Samaritan’s Purse, Mercy Corps Image source: Mercy Corps; CNN http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/12/

  40. Remember the people 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

  41. The end:Kim’s “eternal life” in the hearts of his people http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/category/topic/culture

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