KIM IL SUNG AN AUTOCRATIC LEADER Kim Il Sung was the pseudonym for Kim Song Ju. He was born on April 15, 1912, at Mangyongdae, Pyongyang, to a poor peasant family. He and his family emigrated to Manchuria in the 1920's like many Korean families did at the time. His family was a most patriotic and revolutionary one, and fought for many generations, from the beginning of the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean people for the …showed first 75 words of 1416 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1416 total…ruler, there were many people who escaped to South Korea, and many people who wanted to kill him. Even the "real" creator of "Juche Ideology" ran away to South Korea. I think that this kind of leadership might work at first, but in the long run, will be disastrous and create negative consequences. REFERENCES Bong, Baik. Kim Il Sung Biography. Beyrouth: Dar Al-Talia, 1973 Chajusong Self-reliance, 1998 URL: http://www.01.co.za/freedom/default.htm Word Count: 1448