ABSTRACT
The original form of Marxist ideology and its one hundred-year history have been accorded a relatively large amount of space in the previous chapters. The purpose of this has been to describe the economic and political frames of reference that governed the building of Kim Il Sung’s North Korea. Professional, or convinced, interpreters of communism may perhaps consider the description all too succinct and selective, but this has to be weighed against the reader’s patience. For example, for someone wishing to gain a basic understanding of early Christianity, it is sufficient to be given a somewhat limited description of the principles in the dispute as to whether the Son was of the same or similar essence as the Father. For those concerned at the time it was a matter of life and death, in the same way that – during the twentieth century – it was for communists to be branded as deviators to the right or left. Like other communist dictators, Kim Il Sung, stipulated the one and only faith, i.e. the Party line, and that line will be briefly described as deduced from his writings and speeches as well as his policy in practice.
