North Korea has a cult of personality too. It’s based on the Kim family name beginning with Kim Il Sung the first dictator of North Korea. His successors were his son Kim Jong Il and currently his grandson Kim Jong Un.
The self isolated nation is full of imagery of Il Sung and Jong Il, including the towering statues pictured above.
Every night, North Korea’s news bulletin begins with a song about the mythical qualities of the country’s leader Kim Jong-il and the mountain where he is said to have been born...And since the death of the Dear Leader on 17 December, the media have focused their attention on a series of strange, natural phenomena being reported across the country – a giant lake of ice cracking in half, a red glow covering the mountain where their leader was born and, most recently, magpies gathering by the dozens in a single tree, in grief, according to one party official BBC (from 2011)
Now that Kim Jong Un is the figurehead this devotion of religious quality is applied to him. It is all part of the control mechanism in the communist regime. Other parts include complete censorship of information from outside the nation that is not fully sanctioned by the government.
“There is the belief, which was common also in imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, that the actual physical territory occupied by the nation reflects the attributes of the race itself,” he said. BBC
Kim Jong Un, as were his predecessors, is viewed as a father figure by the nations populace – a fearsome one. This image is stimulated by the regime. His favorite method of executing generals who disagree with him is having them lashed to a pole where a mortar has been pre targetted and then blowing them up.