ABSTRACT
From 1974 until 1994, the year he died of a heart attack, Kim Il Sung gradually handed his power over to Kim Jong Il, whose control spread to the party, the military, and other governmental sectors. The junior Kim established his own way of administering North Korean society and transformed it into a highly developed totalitarian one, with the senior Kim’s assistance. The cult of the Kims continued to become stronger and the chuch'e idea overwhelmed society.
