What North Korea’s personality cult has to do with Jesus
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Find and follow What on Earth every Saturday wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas, Ainala Island. Written in 1946. the song of General Kim Il sung.
In North Korea, this piece of music is more important than the national anthem. In fact, one escapee from North Korea said, they rarely ever heard the official anthem, By contrast, that person said, everybody had to learn this song, quote, as soon as they were born. North Koreans worshipped their founding leader. Then they worshipped his son, Kim Jong il as well, and now the grandson, Kim Jong il.
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