Picture of Statue of Kim Il Sung (North Korea)

The Late Leader in bronze (note the size of the soldier compared to the statue...)

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The country is litterd with monuments, so it is fitting to show you some of the more impressive ones.
North Korea must be, at least at the time of writing these lines, one of the most unique countries in the world, in many respects. It certainly is the country which is still now guided by a very strict interpretation of an imported and adjusted ideology, by almost no flexibility or imagination, and for a large part dominated by a President, or Great Leader, who passed away in 1994. This is Marxism, but mixed with a great deal of idolation for a leader and his self-defined "Juche" ideology. Where Marx claimed that religion was the opium of the masses, the North Korean version his very ideology has been proclaimed religion, and Kim Il Sung its God. Indeed, although he died years ago, the constitution declared him President for eternity.
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