01/14/15 More details about the North Korea

On today's human geo class, we talked more about the North Korea, especially the  3 leaders. And we will have a quiz on Friday.

• Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994)
• Prime Minister (1948-1972)
• President in 1972 until death
• Names are great leader, eternal leader, supreme leader and eternal president of the republic
• viewed as a god
•  established "cult of personality"
• people are required to show extreme devotion to him
• during the early part of his rule, the state destroyed over 2000 Buddhist temples and Christ churches
• Kim Jong-Il 
• ruled from 1994-2011 as Supreme Leader
• Kim Jong-Un
• born in 1983
• became supreme leader in December 17, 2011 after death of his father
• 32 years old - world's youngest head of state
• attended school in Switzerland