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Good essay. Are you going to discuss the development of NK politics? It can be an interesting discussion. A interesting person to cover is Terenty Shytkov who was the Soviet commisar who authored NK's constitution and ran NK until it was handed over to Kim Il Sung. Also Kim Il Sung's actual history is fascinating, propaganda aside he lived an interesting life. i.e. Korean being a second language for him, his actual non embelished role as a freedom fighter, Christian background.

It can be worth comparing the politics of pre-occupation Japan with current North Korea, as much of the Kim peersonality cult derives from the Hirohito cult

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