#kimilsung — Public Fediverse posts
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South Korea trying to learn if Kim Jong Un has a son but daughter’s status as heir appears solid
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said it is trying to determine if North…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #hisdaughter #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #NationalIntelligenceService #NIS #RiSolJu #Seoul #SouthKorea
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Is Kim Jong Un hiding a secret son? Spy agency investigates new report
South Korea‘s spy agency says it is still trying to determine if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KimJuAe #NationalIntelligenceService #NorthKoreanleader #SouthKorea
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Rússia e Coreia do Norte inauguram primeira ponte rodoviária entre os dois países
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Rússia e Coreia do Norte inauguram primeira ponte rodoviária entre os dois países
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Rússia e Coreia do Norte inauguram primeira ponte rodoviária entre os dois países
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Party charter codifies Kim’s sole leadership https://www.byteseu.com/2337211/ #Conflicts #ideology #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #NorthKorea #Succession #unification #Workers'PartyOfKorea
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Party charter codifies Kim’s sole leadership
Kim Jong Un addresses delegates at the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress on Feb. 19, 2026. The…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Ideology #KimIlSung #KimJong-il #KimJong-un #northkorea #succession #unification #Workers'PartyofKorea
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Party charter codifies Kim’s sole leadership
Kim Jong Un addresses delegates at the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress on Feb. 19, 2026. The…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #ideology #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #succession #unification #workers'partyofkorea
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North Korea’s next ruler? Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Seoul’s spies say
North Korea has never named her, confirmed her age or acknowledged her as Kim Jong-un’s heir. Yet South…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Beijing #Cuba #DonaldTrump #Hanoi #Hwasong-17 #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KimJuAe #KumsusanPalaceoftheSun #NationalIntelligenceService #Pyongyang #SouthKorea #workers'partyofkorea
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North Korea’s next ruler? Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Seoul’s spies say
North Korea has never named her, confirmed her age or acknowledged her as Kim Jong-un’s heir. Yet South…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Seoul #Beijing #Cuba #DonaldTrump #Hanoi #Hwasong-17 #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KimJuAe #KumsusanPalaceoftheSun #NationalIntelligenceService #NorthKorea #Pyongyang #SouthKorea #workers'partyofkorea
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North Korea’s next ruler? Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Seoul’s spies say
North Korea has never named her, confirmed her age or acknowledged her as Kim Jong-un’s heir. Yet South…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Beijing #Cuba #DonaldTrump #Hanoi #Hwasong-17 #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KimJuAe #KumsusanPalaceoftheSun #NationalIntelligenceService #Pyongyang #SouthKorea #workers'partyofkorea
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N. Korea revives loyalty song for youth
Employees at North Korea’s Central Industrial Art Bureau sing songs expressing devotion to the leader, July 8, 2025.…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Culture #ideology #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #propaganda #workers'partyofkorea #youth
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N. Korea revives loyalty song for youth https://www.byteseu.com/2197859/ #Conflicts #culture #ideology #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #NorthKorea #Propaganda #Workers'PartyOfKorea #youth
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Elderly miss Kim Il Sung era
Rodong Sinmun reported on July 8, 2025, the 31st anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s death, showing people visiting…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Elderly #kimilsung #northhamgyongprovince #poverty #propaganda #RodongSinmun #Ryanggangprovince #southpyonganprovince
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https://www.europesays.com/ee/224402/ Kim Jong-un astub isa ja vanaisa varjust välja ja suurendab isikukultust | Välismaa #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #diktatuur #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #KimJongUn #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #PõhjaKorea #PopulaarseimadLood #TopStories #TopStories #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #ViimasedUudised
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Kim Il Sung gogoan, haren heriotzaren 32. urteurrenean
Kim Il Sung burkide aitzindari handiaren heriotzaren 32. urteurrena dela eta, Koreako Herri Armadako herritar, ofizial eta soldadu guztiek inoiz baino gehiago maite eta ohoratzen dute alderdia eta Estatua herriaren benetako erakunde politiko eta herrialde bihurtu zituen burkide handi paregabe hau. Berak ezarri zuen korear es
https://www.kfa-eh.org/2026/07/08/kim-il-sung-gogoan-haren-heriotzaren-32-urteurrenean/
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Schools boost Kim Jong Un idolization https://www.byteseu.com/2158310/ #Conflicts #EDUCATION #ideology #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #Lectures #MinistryOfEducation #NorthKorea #Propaganda #students #Succession
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Mamdani-Backed Chevalier Praised North Korea’s Kim in Unearthed Communist-Friendly Tweets
(AP Photo/Ryan Murphy) Deleted tweets from Darializa Avila Chevalier (D) — one of the three Democratic Socialist candidates…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #AndrewKaczynski #AssataShakur #bannedbooks #BlackLiberationArmy #communistleaders #DarializaAvilaChevalier #DemocraticSocialist #kimilsung #VladimirLenin #ZohranMamdani
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Why the changes to North Korea’s constitution should scare us all
Several recent changes to North Korea’s constitution, which the Supreme People’s Assembly adopted in March, have raised eyebrows…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #constitution #kimilsung #KimJungIl #SouthKorea #SupremePeople'sAssembly
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Inside the ultra-exclusive guesthouse hosting Xi Jinping in North Korea
China‘s Xi Jinping is staying at a state guest house in North Korea which has become the country’s…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #guesthouse #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KumsusanPalaceoftheSun #NorthKoreanleader #PengLiyuan #Pyongyang #satelliteimagery #statevisit #XiJinping
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Inside the ultra-exclusive guesthouse hosting Xi Jinping in North Korea
China’s Xi Jinping is staying at a state guest house in North Korea which has become the country’s…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #guesthouse #kimilsung #kimjongil #KimJongUn #KumsusanPalaceoftheSun #NorthKoreanleader #PengLiyuan #Pyongyang #satelliteimagery #statevisit #XiJinping
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Every April 15, North Korea celebrates its founder's birthday with mass dances, parades, and fireworks. Kim Il Sung died in 1994. The cult lives on — mandatory, choreographed, and eternal.
🎂 #NorthKorea #DPRK #KimIlSung https://koryogroup.com/blog/day-of-the-sun-in-north-korea-is-no-more-as-the-dprk-changes-name-of-this-north-korean-holiday -
Kim Il Sung betirako bizi da herrian / Kim Il Sung vive siempre en el pueblo
Aurten, apirilaren 15ean, Kim Il Sung burkide handiaren jaiotzaren 114. urteurrena ospatzen da.
Kim Il Sung herriarekin batera egon zen beti, Iminwichon idearioa bere goiburu hartuta; hau da, "Herria da nire jainkoa" lelotzat hartuz, bere bizitza osoa eta indar guztiak herriaren ongizateari
https://www.kfa-eh.org/2026/04/15/kim-il-sung-betirako-bizi-da-herrian-kim-il-sung-vive-siempre-en-el-pueblo/
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Kim Il Sung betirako bizi da herrian / Kim Il Sung vive siempre en el pueblo
Aurten, apirilaren 15ean, Kim Il Sung burkide handiaren jaiotzaren 114. urteurrena ospatzen da.
Kim Il Sung herriarekin batera egon zen beti, Iminwichon idearioa bere goiburu hartuta; hau da, "Herria da nire jainkoa" lelotzat hartuz, bere bizitza osoa eta indar guztiak herriaren ongizateari
https://www.kfa-eh.org/2026/04/15/kim-il-sung-betirako-bizi-da-herrian-kim-il-sung-vive-siempre-en-el-pueblo/
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Kim Jong Un cult of personality alarms North Koreans
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presides over a vote at the first session of the 15th Supreme…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #crackdowns #donju #Ideology #jangmadang #KimIlSung #KimJong-il #KimJong-un #markets #ninthpartycongress #northkorea #propaganda #Workers'PartyofKorea
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What’s behind sudden thaw as North, South Korea exchange warm words? https://www.byteseu.com/1923072/ #Conflicts #DemocraticPartyOfKorea #DonggukUniversity #InstituteForFarEasternStudies #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #KimYoJong #KoreanPeninsula #KyungnamUniversity #LeeJaeMyung #MiddleEast #NationalIntelligenceService #NorthKorea #Pyongyang #Seoul
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Seoul says it’s fair to view Kim’s teen daughter as his heir
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency says it’s now fai…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #AsiaPacific #DennisRodman #Entertainment #Generalnews #InternationalNews #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #KimJong-un #KimJuAe #KimYoJong #LeeJong-seok #LeeSeongKweun #Militaryanddefense #NorthKorea #NorthKoreagovernment #politics #Seoul #southkorea #Teens #Worldnews
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Seoul says it’s fair to view Kim’s teen daughter as his heir
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s spy agency says it’s now fai…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #AsiaPacific #DennisRodman #Entertainment #Generalnews #InternationalNews #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #KimJong-un #KimJuAe #KimYoJong #LeeJong-seok #LeeSeongKweun #Militaryanddefense #NorthKorea #NorthKoreagovernment #politics #Seoul #southkorea #Teens #Worldnews
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A trip on the overnight express from Beijing to North Korea | Travel https://www.byteseu.com/1916903/ #China #Conflicts #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #MaoZedong #NorthKorea #Pyongyang #XiJinping
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A trip on the overnight express from Beijing to North Korea | Travel
At Beijing’s train station, inaugurated by Mao Zedong himself in 1959, waiting hall number four is overflowing. At…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #China #KimIlSung #KimJong-un #maozedong #northkorea #Pyongyang #XiJinping
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https://www.europesays.com/people/1151/ Newsom notes Trump’s proposed gold statue in his library ‘looks awfully familiar’ to dictators #CaliforniaGovernor #DonaldJTrumpPresidentialLibrary #DonaldTrump #EricTrump #GavinNewsom #GoldStatue #KimIlSung #NorthKorea #PresidentialLibrary #SaparmuratNiyazov #WhiteHouse
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Kim re-elected as general secretary of North Korea’s ruling party https://www.byteseu.com/1822034/ #Conflicts #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #KoreanCentralNewsAgency #NinthCongressOfTheWorkers'PartyOfKorea #north #NorthKorea #NorthKoreanLeader #PartyCongress #PartyGeneralSecretary
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North Korea’s Hollywood-style thriller unveils taboo plot against Kim’s father https://www.byteseu.com/1820456/ #Conflicts #KimIlSung #KimJongUn #KimJongIl #KoreanCentralTelevision #KoreanWar #NorthKorea #Pyongyang #PyongyangInternationalFilmFestival #SouthKoreanMedia
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Kim’s daughter visits family mausoleum, promoting her potential status as heir in North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #Entertainment #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #KimJong-un #KimJuAe #NorthKorea #NorthKoreanleader #southkorea #statemedia #Workers’Party
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Meanwhile in #tankie clownland
It must be a #coincidence that #KimJongUn is the son of #KimJongIl, who was the son of #KimIlSung….
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Meanwhile in #tankie clownland
It must be a #coincidence that #KimJongUn is the son of #KimJongIl, who was the son of #KimIlSung….
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Meanwhile in #tankie clownland
It must be a #coincidence that #KimJongUn is the son of #KimJongIl, who was the son of #KimIlSung….
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Meanwhile in #tankie clownland
It must be a #coincidence that #KimJongUn is the son of #KimJongIl, who was the son of #KimIlSung….
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Khám phá những bức ảnh hiếm về ba lần gặp lịch sử giữa Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh và Chủ tịch Kim Nhật Thành - những cuộc gặp gỡ đã đặt nền móng vững chắc cho tình hữu nghị đặc biệt giữa hai dân tộc. #LịchSử #QuanHệĐạiHàn #ViệtNam #NorthKorea #HồChíMinh #KimIlSung #HữuNghị #Diplomacy
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Frank Dikötter: How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Jak być dyktatorem: kult jednostki w XX wieku)
Nie jest to książka per se o wybranym szeregu dyktatorów, ale o sposobach w jaki powstaje kult jednostki. Poszczególne postacie służą jako ilustracja działania mechanizmów budowy wizerunku przywódcy. Co ważne, wiele z nich jest też – niestety – wykorzystywanych przez polityków w państwach demokratycznych.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-hJ2 #dyktaotorzy #polityka #propaganda #KultJednostki #książka #MaoZedong #KimIlSung #Chiny #ChRL
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Frank Dikötter: How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Jak być dyktatorem: kult jednostki w XX wieku)
Nie jest to książka per se o wybranym szeregu dyktatorów, ale o sposobach w jaki powstaje kult jednostki. Poszczególne postacie służą jako ilustracja działania mechanizmów budowy wizerunku przywódcy. Co ważne, wiele z nich jest też – niestety – wykorzystywanych przez polityków w państwach demokratycznych.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-hJ2 #dyktaotorzy #polityka #propaganda #KultJednostki #książka #MaoZedong #KimIlSung #Chiny #ChRL
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Frank Dikötter: How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Jak być dyktatorem: kult jednostki w XX wieku)
Nie jest to książka per se o wybranym szeregu dyktatorów, ale o sposobach w jaki powstaje kult jednostki. Poszczególne postacie służą jako ilustracja działania mechanizmów budowy wizerunku przywódcy. Co ważne, wiele z nich jest też – niestety – wykorzystywanych przez polityków w państwach demokratycznych.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-hJ2 #dyktaotorzy #polityka #propaganda #KultJednostki #książka #MaoZedong #KimIlSung #Chiny #ChRL
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Frank Dikötter: How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Jak być dyktatorem: kult jednostki w XX wieku)
Nie jest to książka per se o wybranym szeregu dyktatorów, ale o sposobach w jaki powstaje kult jednostki. Poszczególne postacie służą jako ilustracja działania mechanizmów budowy wizerunku przywódcy. Co ważne, wiele z nich jest też – niestety – wykorzystywanych przez polityków w państwach demokratycznych.
https://wp.me/p3fv0T-hJ2 #dyktaotorzy #polityka #propaganda #KultJednostki #książka #MaoZedong #KimIlSung #Chiny #ChRL
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Apotheosis
This is also called divinization or deification. It’s from the Latin deificato, meaning “making divine.” This is the glorification of a subject to divine levels & commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
The original sense of apotheosis relates to religion & is the subject of many works of art. Figuratively “apotheosis” may be used in almost any context for “the deification, glorification, or exaltation of a principle, practice, etc.” So normally attached to an abstraction of some sort.
In religion, apotheosis was a feature of many religions in the ancient world. Some that are active today. It requires a belief that there’s a possibility of newly created God’s, so a polytheistic belief system.
The Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam, & Judaism don’t allow this. Though many recognize minor sacred categories such as saints. They’re created by a process called canonization. In Christian theology, there’s a concept of the faithful becoming god-like, called divinization or in Eastern Christianity theosis.
In Hinduism, there’s some range for new deities. A human may be deified by becoming regarded as an avatar of an established deity, usually a major one, or by being regarded as a new, independent deity (usually a minor one), or a mix of the 2.
In art, an apotheosis scene usually shows the subject in the Heavens or rising towards them. They’re often partnered by a number of angels, putti, personifications of virtues, or similar figures.
Especially from Baroque art onwards apotheosis scenes may show rulers, generals, or artists purely as an honorific symbol. In many cases, the “religious” context is classical Greco-Roman pagan religion, like The Apotheosis of Voltaire, which features Apollo. The Apotheosis of Washington (1865) sits high in the dome of the United States of America Capitol Building is another example. Personification of places or abstractions are also shown receiving an apotheosis. The classic composition was suited for artistic placement on ceilings or inside domes.
Before the Hellenistic period, imperial cults were known in ancient Egypt (pharaohs) & Mesopotamia (from Naran-Sin through Hammurabi). In the New Kingdom of Egypt, all deceased pharaohs were deified as the god Osiris, having been identified as Horus while on the throne. They were sometimes referred to as the “son” of other various deities.
The architect Imhotep was defied after his passing away. Though the process seems to have been gradual. This took over 1,000 years, by which time he had become associated with medicine. About a dozen non-royal ancient Egyptians became regarded as deities.
Ancient Greek & Roman religions have many characters who were born as humans but became gods. Like Disney’s Hercules. They’re usually made divine by 1 of the main deities, the 12 Olympians. In the Roman story of Cupid & Psyche, Zeus gave the ambrosia of the gods to the mortal Psyche. This transformed her into a goddess herself.
In the case of the Hellenistic queen Berenice II of Egypt was deified like other rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The court dispersed a myth that her hair, that was cut off to fulfill a vow, had its own apotheosis before becoming the Coma Berenices, a group of stars that still bear her name.
In the Greek world, the 1st leader who granted himself diving honors was Philip II of Macedon. At the wedding to his 6th wife, Philip’s enthroned image was carried in procession among the Olympian gods. Such Hellenistic state leaders might be raised to a status equal to the gods before death, like Alexander the Great, or afterwards, like members of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
A heroic cult status that’s similar to apotheosis was also an honor given to a few reversed artists of the distant past, such as Homer.
Up to the end of the Roman Republic, the god Quirinus was the only 1 the Romans accepted as having undergone apotheosis, for his identification/syncretism with Romulus. Syncretism is the practice of meshing together different beliefs & various schools of thought. Eventually apotheosis in Ancient Rome was a process whereby a deceased ruler was recognized as divine by their successors. This was usually done by a decree of the Senate & popular consent.
The 1st of these cases was the posthumous deification of the last Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 42 BC by his adopted son, the triumvir Caesar Octavian. In addition to showing respect, the present ruler often deified a popular predecessor to legitimize himself & gain popularity himself & gain popularity with the people.
A vote in the Roman Senate, in the later Empire confirming an imperial decree, was the normal official process. But this sometimes followed a period with the unofficial use of deific language or imagery for the individual. This was often done rather discreetly within the imperial circle.
There was then a public ceremony, called a consecratio, including the release of an eagle which flew high. This represents the ascent of the deified person’s soul to Heaven. Imagery featuring the ascent, sometimes using a chariot, was common on coins & in other art.
The largest & most famous example in art in a relief on the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius, showing the emperor & his wife, Faustina the Elder, being carried up by a much larger winged figure, described as representing “Eternity,” as the personifications of “Roma” & the Campus Martius sit below, & eagles fly above. The imperial couple are represented as Jupiter & Juno (or Zeus & Hera).
The historian Dio Cassius, who said he was present, gives a detailed description of the large, & lavish, public consecratio of Perinax, emperor for 3 months in 193, ordered by Septimius Severus.
At the height of the imperial cult during the Roman Empire, sometimes the emperor’s deceased loved ones (heirs, empresses, or lovers) like Hadrian’s Antinous were deified as well.
Deified people were posthumously given the title ‘Divus’ for men & ‘Diva’ for women to their names to signify their divinity. Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus (god) & divus (a mortal who became divine or deified), though not consistently. Temple & columns were erected to provide a space for worship.
The imperial cult was mainly popular in the provinces. Especially in the Eastern Empire, where many cultures were well used to deified rulers, & less popular in Rome itself, & among traditionalists & intellectuals.
Some privately, & cautiously, ridiculed the apotheosis of inept & feeble emperors, as in the satire The Pumkinification of (the Divine) Claudius. This is usually attributed to Seneca.
Numerous mortals have been deified into the Taoist pantheon. Examples are Guan Yi, Iron-crutch Li, & Fan Kuai. Song dynasty general Yue Fei was deified during the Ming dynasty. He’s considered by some practitioners to be 1 of the 3 highest-ranking heavenly generals. The Ming dynasty epic Investiture of the Gods deals heavily with deification legends.
In the complicated, & variable, conceptions of deity in Buddhism, the achievement of Buddhahood may be regarded as an achievable goal for the faithful. Many significant deities are considered to have begun as normal people, from Gautama Buddha (the original Buddha & the creator of Buddhism) downwards. Most of these are seen as avatars or re-births of earlier figures.
Some significant Hindu deities, in particular Rama, were also born as humans. He’s seen as an avatar of Vishnu. In more modern times, Swaminarayan is an undoubted & well-documented historical figure, who’s regarded by some Hindus as an avatar of Vishnu, or as being a still more elevated deity. Bharat Mata (Mother India) began as a national personification devised by a group of Bengali intellectuals in the late 19th century. But now it receives some worship.
Various Hindu & Buddhist rulers in the past have been represented as deities, especially after death, from India to Indonesia. Jayavarman VII, King of the Khmer Empire the 1st Buddhist king of Cambodia, had his own features used for the many statues of Buddha/Avalokitevara he erected.
The extreme personality cult instituted by the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung, has been to represent a deification. And continues to this day with the current leader. Even the nation is admittedly atheist.
In Christian theology, instead of the word “apotheosis,” they use the words “deification” or “divinization” or the Greek word “theosis.” Pre-Reformation, & mainstream theology, in both East & West, views Jesus Christ as the preexisting God who undertook mortal existence. Not as a mortal being who attained divinity. A view known as adoptionism. Adoptionism is an early Christian non-Trinitarian doctrine that holds that Jesus was born a mere human being. But Jesus was later adopted by God as His son, usually at Jesus’ baptism or resurrection, rather than being divine from eternity.
It holds that he has made it possible for human beings to be raised to the level of sharing the divine nature as II Peter 1:4 states that he became human to make humans “partakers of the divine nature.”
In John 10:34, Jesus referenced Psalm 82:6 when he stated: “Is it not written in your Law, I have said you are gods?” Other authors stated: “For this is why the Word became man, & the Son of God became the Son of man: so that Man, by entering into communion with the Word & thus receiving divine sonship, might be made God.” Accusations of self deification to some degree may have been placed on heretical such as the Waldensians.
The language of II Peter is taken up by St. Irenaeus, in his famous phrase, “if the Word has been made man, it is so that men may be made gods.” It becomes the standard in Greek theology. In the 14th century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word. In the 5th century, St. Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons “by participation” (Greek methexis). Methexis is “group sharing,” where the audience actively participates in the performance.
Deification is the central idea in the spirituality of St. Maximus the Confessor. For whom the doctrine is the result of the Incarnation: “Deification, briefly, is the encompassion & fulfillment of all times and ages.”
The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t use the term “apotheosis” in its theology. This is equivalent to the Greek word theosis are Latin-derived words “divinization” & deification” used in the Latin tradition of the Catholic Church.
The concept has been given less prominence in Western theology than in that of the Eastern Catholic Churches. But is present in the Latin Church’s liturgical prayer.
Despite the theological differences, in the Catholic church art depictions of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in art & the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art do share many similarities in composition to apotheosis subjects. As there are many images of saints being raised into Heaven.
Anthropolatry is the deification & worship of humans. It was practiced in ancient Japan towards their emperors. Followers of Socinianism were later accused of practicing anthropolatry.
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Apotheosis
This is also called divinization or deification. It’s from the Latin deificato, meaning “making divine.” This is the glorification of a subject to divine levels & commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
The original sense of apotheosis relates to religion & is the subject of many works of art. Figuratively “apotheosis” may be used in almost any context for “the deification, glorification, or exaltation of a principle, practice, etc.” So normally attached to an abstraction of some sort.
In religion, apotheosis was a feature of many religions in the ancient world. Some that are active today. It requires a belief that there’s a possibility of newly created God’s, so a polytheistic belief system.
The Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam, & Judaism don’t allow this. Though many recognize minor sacred categories such as saints. They’re created by a process called canonization. In Christian theology, there’s a concept of the faithful becoming god-like, called divinization or in Eastern Christianity theosis.
In Hinduism, there’s some range for new deities. A human may be deified by becoming regarded as an avatar of an established deity, usually a major one, or by being regarded as a new, independent deity (usually a minor one), or a mix of the 2.
In art, an apotheosis scene usually shows the subject in the Heavens or rising towards them. They’re often partnered by a number of angels, putti, personifications of virtues, or similar figures.
Especially from Baroque art onwards apotheosis scenes may show rulers, generals, or artists purely as an honorific symbol. In many cases, the “religious” context is classical Greco-Roman pagan religion, like The Apotheosis of Voltaire, which features Apollo. The Apotheosis of Washington (1865) sits high in the dome of the United States of America Capitol Building is another example. Personification of places or abstractions are also shown receiving an apotheosis. The classic composition was suited for artistic placement on ceilings or inside domes.
Before the Hellenistic period, imperial cults were known in ancient Egypt (pharaohs) & Mesopotamia (from Naran-Sin through Hammurabi). In the New Kingdom of Egypt, all deceased pharaohs were deified as the god Osiris, having been identified as Horus while on the throne. They were sometimes referred to as the “son” of other various deities.
The architect Imhotep was defied after his passing away. Though the process seems to have been gradual. This took over 1,000 years, by which time he had become associated with medicine. About a dozen non-royal ancient Egyptians became regarded as deities.
Ancient Greek & Roman religions have many characters who were born as humans but became gods. Like Disney’s Hercules. They’re usually made divine by 1 of the main deities, the 12 Olympians. In the Roman story of Cupid & Psyche, Zeus gave the ambrosia of the gods to the mortal Psyche. This transformed her into a goddess herself.
In the case of the Hellenistic queen Berenice II of Egypt was deified like other rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The court dispersed a myth that her hair, that was cut off to fulfill a vow, had its own apotheosis before becoming the Coma Berenices, a group of stars that still bear her name.
In the Greek world, the 1st leader who granted himself diving honors was Philip II of Macedon. At the wedding to his 6th wife, Philip’s enthroned image was carried in procession among the Olympian gods. Such Hellenistic state leaders might be raised to a status equal to the gods before death, like Alexander the Great, or afterwards, like members of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
A heroic cult status that’s similar to apotheosis was also an honor given to a few reversed artists of the distant past, such as Homer.
Up to the end of the Roman Republic, the god Quirinus was the only 1 the Romans accepted as having undergone apotheosis, for his identification/syncretism with Romulus. Syncretism is the practice of meshing together different beliefs & various schools of thought. Eventually apotheosis in Ancient Rome was a process whereby a deceased ruler was recognized as divine by their successors. This was usually done by a decree of the Senate & popular consent.
The 1st of these cases was the posthumous deification of the last Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 42 BC by his adopted son, the triumvir Caesar Octavian. In addition to showing respect, the present ruler often deified a popular predecessor to legitimize himself & gain popularity himself & gain popularity with the people.
A vote in the Roman Senate, in the later Empire confirming an imperial decree, was the normal official process. But this sometimes followed a period with the unofficial use of deific language or imagery for the individual. This was often done rather discreetly within the imperial circle.
There was then a public ceremony, called a consecratio, including the release of an eagle which flew high. This represents the ascent of the deified person’s soul to Heaven. Imagery featuring the ascent, sometimes using a chariot, was common on coins & in other art.
The largest & most famous example in art in a relief on the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius, showing the emperor & his wife, Faustina the Elder, being carried up by a much larger winged figure, described as representing “Eternity,” as the personifications of “Roma” & the Campus Martius sit below, & eagles fly above. The imperial couple are represented as Jupiter & Juno (or Zeus & Hera).
The historian Dio Cassius, who said he was present, gives a detailed description of the large, & lavish, public consecratio of Perinax, emperor for 3 months in 193, ordered by Septimius Severus.
At the height of the imperial cult during the Roman Empire, sometimes the emperor’s deceased loved ones (heirs, empresses, or lovers) like Hadrian’s Antinous were deified as well.
Deified people were posthumously given the title ‘Divus’ for men & ‘Diva’ for women to their names to signify their divinity. Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus (god) & divus (a mortal who became divine or deified), though not consistently. Temple & columns were erected to provide a space for worship.
The imperial cult was mainly popular in the provinces. Especially in the Eastern Empire, where many cultures were well used to deified rulers, & less popular in Rome itself, & among traditionalists & intellectuals.
Some privately, & cautiously, ridiculed the apotheosis of inept & feeble emperors, as in the satire The Pumkinification of (the Divine) Claudius. This is usually attributed to Seneca.
Numerous mortals have been deified into the Taoist pantheon. Examples are Guan Yi, Iron-crutch Li, & Fan Kuai. Song dynasty general Yue Fei was deified during the Ming dynasty. He’s considered by some practitioners to be 1 of the 3 highest-ranking heavenly generals. The Ming dynasty epic Investiture of the Gods deals heavily with deification legends.
In the complicated, & variable, conceptions of deity in Buddhism, the achievement of Buddhahood may be regarded as an achievable goal for the faithful. Many significant deities are considered to have begun as normal people, from Gautama Buddha (the original Buddha & the creator of Buddhism) downwards. Most of these are seen as avatars or re-births of earlier figures.
Some significant Hindu deities, in particular Rama, were also born as humans. He’s seen as an avatar of Vishnu. In more modern times, Swaminarayan is an undoubted & well-documented historical figure, who’s regarded by some Hindus as an avatar of Vishnu, or as being a still more elevated deity. Bharat Mata (Mother India) began as a national personification devised by a group of Bengali intellectuals in the late 19th century. But now it receives some worship.
Various Hindu & Buddhist rulers in the past have been represented as deities, especially after death, from India to Indonesia. Jayavarman VII, King of the Khmer Empire the 1st Buddhist king of Cambodia, had his own features used for the many statues of Buddha/Avalokitevara he erected.
The extreme personality cult instituted by the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung, has been to represent a deification. And continues to this day with the current leader. Even the nation is admittedly atheist.
In Christian theology, instead of the word “apotheosis,” they use the words “deification” or “divinization” or the Greek word “theosis.” Pre-Reformation, & mainstream theology, in both East & West, views Jesus Christ as the preexisting God who undertook mortal existence. Not as a mortal being who attained divinity. A view known as adoptionism. Adoptionism is an early Christian non-Trinitarian doctrine that holds that Jesus was born a mere human being. But Jesus was later adopted by God as His son, usually at Jesus’ baptism or resurrection, rather than being divine from eternity.
It holds that he has made it possible for human beings to be raised to the level of sharing the divine nature as II Peter 1:4 states that he became human to make humans “partakers of the divine nature.”
In John 10:34, Jesus referenced Psalm 82:6 when he stated: “Is it not written in your Law, I have said you are gods?” Other authors stated: “For this is why the Word became man, & the Son of God became the Son of man: so that Man, by entering into communion with the Word & thus receiving divine sonship, might be made God.” Accusations of self deification to some degree may have been placed on heretical such as the Waldensians.
The language of II Peter is taken up by St. Irenaeus, in his famous phrase, “if the Word has been made man, it is so that men may be made gods.” It becomes the standard in Greek theology. In the 14th century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word. In the 5th century, St. Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons “by participation” (Greek methexis). Methexis is “group sharing,” where the audience actively participates in the performance.
Deification is the central idea in the spirituality of St. Maximus the Confessor. For whom the doctrine is the result of the Incarnation: “Deification, briefly, is the encompassion & fulfillment of all times and ages.”
The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t use the term “apotheosis” in its theology. This is equivalent to the Greek word theosis are Latin-derived words “divinization” & deification” used in the Latin tradition of the Catholic Church.
The concept has been given less prominence in Western theology than in that of the Eastern Catholic Churches. But is present in the Latin Church’s liturgical prayer.
Despite the theological differences, in the Catholic church art depictions of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in art & the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art do share many similarities in composition to apotheosis subjects. As there are many images of saints being raised into Heaven.
Anthropolatry is the deification & worship of humans. It was practiced in ancient Japan towards their emperors. Followers of Socinianism were later accused of practicing anthropolatry.
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Apotheosis
This is also called divinization or deification. It’s from the Latin deificato, meaning “making divine.” This is the glorification of a subject to divine levels & commonly, the treatment of a human being, any other living thing, or an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity.
The original sense of apotheosis relates to religion & is the subject of many works of art. Figuratively “apotheosis” may be used in almost any context for “the deification, glorification, or exaltation of a principle, practice, etc.” So normally attached to an abstraction of some sort.
In religion, apotheosis was a feature of many religions in the ancient world. Some that are active today. It requires a belief that there’s a possibility of newly created God’s, so a polytheistic belief system.
The Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam, & Judaism don’t allow this. Though many recognize minor sacred categories such as saints. They’re created by a process called canonization. In Christian theology, there’s a concept of the faithful becoming god-like, called divinization or in Eastern Christianity theosis.
In Hinduism, there’s some range for new deities. A human may be deified by becoming regarded as an avatar of an established deity, usually a major one, or by being regarded as a new, independent deity (usually a minor one), or a mix of the 2.
In art, an apotheosis scene usually shows the subject in the Heavens or rising towards them. They’re often partnered by a number of angels, putti, personifications of virtues, or similar figures.
Especially from Baroque art onwards apotheosis scenes may show rulers, generals, or artists purely as an honorific symbol. In many cases, the “religious” context is classical Greco-Roman pagan religion, like The Apotheosis of Voltaire, which features Apollo. The Apotheosis of Washington (1865) sits high in the dome of the United States of America Capitol Building is another example. Personification of places or abstractions are also shown receiving an apotheosis. The classic composition was suited for artistic placement on ceilings or inside domes.
Before the Hellenistic period, imperial cults were known in ancient Egypt (pharaohs) & Mesopotamia (from Naran-Sin through Hammurabi). In the New Kingdom of Egypt, all deceased pharaohs were deified as the god Osiris, having been identified as Horus while on the throne. They were sometimes referred to as the “son” of other various deities.
The architect Imhotep was defied after his passing away. Though the process seems to have been gradual. This took over 1,000 years, by which time he had become associated with medicine. About a dozen non-royal ancient Egyptians became regarded as deities.
Ancient Greek & Roman religions have many characters who were born as humans but became gods. Like Disney’s Hercules. They’re usually made divine by 1 of the main deities, the 12 Olympians. In the Roman story of Cupid & Psyche, Zeus gave the ambrosia of the gods to the mortal Psyche. This transformed her into a goddess herself.
In the case of the Hellenistic queen Berenice II of Egypt was deified like other rulers of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The court dispersed a myth that her hair, that was cut off to fulfill a vow, had its own apotheosis before becoming the Coma Berenices, a group of stars that still bear her name.
In the Greek world, the 1st leader who granted himself diving honors was Philip II of Macedon. At the wedding to his 6th wife, Philip’s enthroned image was carried in procession among the Olympian gods. Such Hellenistic state leaders might be raised to a status equal to the gods before death, like Alexander the Great, or afterwards, like members of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
A heroic cult status that’s similar to apotheosis was also an honor given to a few reversed artists of the distant past, such as Homer.
Up to the end of the Roman Republic, the god Quirinus was the only 1 the Romans accepted as having undergone apotheosis, for his identification/syncretism with Romulus. Syncretism is the practice of meshing together different beliefs & various schools of thought. Eventually apotheosis in Ancient Rome was a process whereby a deceased ruler was recognized as divine by their successors. This was usually done by a decree of the Senate & popular consent.
The 1st of these cases was the posthumous deification of the last Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 42 BC by his adopted son, the triumvir Caesar Octavian. In addition to showing respect, the present ruler often deified a popular predecessor to legitimize himself & gain popularity himself & gain popularity with the people.
A vote in the Roman Senate, in the later Empire confirming an imperial decree, was the normal official process. But this sometimes followed a period with the unofficial use of deific language or imagery for the individual. This was often done rather discreetly within the imperial circle.
There was then a public ceremony, called a consecratio, including the release of an eagle which flew high. This represents the ascent of the deified person’s soul to Heaven. Imagery featuring the ascent, sometimes using a chariot, was common on coins & in other art.
The largest & most famous example in art in a relief on the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius, showing the emperor & his wife, Faustina the Elder, being carried up by a much larger winged figure, described as representing “Eternity,” as the personifications of “Roma” & the Campus Martius sit below, & eagles fly above. The imperial couple are represented as Jupiter & Juno (or Zeus & Hera).
The historian Dio Cassius, who said he was present, gives a detailed description of the large, & lavish, public consecratio of Perinax, emperor for 3 months in 193, ordered by Septimius Severus.
At the height of the imperial cult during the Roman Empire, sometimes the emperor’s deceased loved ones (heirs, empresses, or lovers) like Hadrian’s Antinous were deified as well.
Deified people were posthumously given the title ‘Divus’ for men & ‘Diva’ for women to their names to signify their divinity. Traditional Roman religion distinguished between a deus (god) & divus (a mortal who became divine or deified), though not consistently. Temple & columns were erected to provide a space for worship.
The imperial cult was mainly popular in the provinces. Especially in the Eastern Empire, where many cultures were well used to deified rulers, & less popular in Rome itself, & among traditionalists & intellectuals.
Some privately, & cautiously, ridiculed the apotheosis of inept & feeble emperors, as in the satire The Pumkinification of (the Divine) Claudius. This is usually attributed to Seneca.
Numerous mortals have been deified into the Taoist pantheon. Examples are Guan Yi, Iron-crutch Li, & Fan Kuai. Song dynasty general Yue Fei was deified during the Ming dynasty. He’s considered by some practitioners to be 1 of the 3 highest-ranking heavenly generals. The Ming dynasty epic Investiture of the Gods deals heavily with deification legends.
In the complicated, & variable, conceptions of deity in Buddhism, the achievement of Buddhahood may be regarded as an achievable goal for the faithful. Many significant deities are considered to have begun as normal people, from Gautama Buddha (the original Buddha & the creator of Buddhism) downwards. Most of these are seen as avatars or re-births of earlier figures.
Some significant Hindu deities, in particular Rama, were also born as humans. He’s seen as an avatar of Vishnu. In more modern times, Swaminarayan is an undoubted & well-documented historical figure, who’s regarded by some Hindus as an avatar of Vishnu, or as being a still more elevated deity. Bharat Mata (Mother India) began as a national personification devised by a group of Bengali intellectuals in the late 19th century. But now it receives some worship.
Various Hindu & Buddhist rulers in the past have been represented as deities, especially after death, from India to Indonesia. Jayavarman VII, King of the Khmer Empire the 1st Buddhist king of Cambodia, had his own features used for the many statues of Buddha/Avalokitevara he erected.
The extreme personality cult instituted by the founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung, has been to represent a deification. And continues to this day with the current leader. Even the nation is admittedly atheist.
In Christian theology, instead of the word “apotheosis,” they use the words “deification” or “divinization” or the Greek word “theosis.” Pre-Reformation, & mainstream theology, in both East & West, views Jesus Christ as the preexisting God who undertook mortal existence. Not as a mortal being who attained divinity. A view known as adoptionism. Adoptionism is an early Christian non-Trinitarian doctrine that holds that Jesus was born a mere human being. But Jesus was later adopted by God as His son, usually at Jesus’ baptism or resurrection, rather than being divine from eternity.
It holds that he has made it possible for human beings to be raised to the level of sharing the divine nature as II Peter 1:4 states that he became human to make humans “partakers of the divine nature.”
In John 10:34, Jesus referenced Psalm 82:6 when he stated: “Is it not written in your Law, I have said you are gods?” Other authors stated: “For this is why the Word became man, & the Son of God became the Son of man: so that Man, by entering into communion with the Word & thus receiving divine sonship, might be made God.” Accusations of self deification to some degree may have been placed on heretical such as the Waldensians.
The language of II Peter is taken up by St. Irenaeus, in his famous phrase, “if the Word has been made man, it is so that men may be made gods.” It becomes the standard in Greek theology. In the 14th century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word. In the 5th century, St. Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons “by participation” (Greek methexis). Methexis is “group sharing,” where the audience actively participates in the performance.
Deification is the central idea in the spirituality of St. Maximus the Confessor. For whom the doctrine is the result of the Incarnation: “Deification, briefly, is the encompassion & fulfillment of all times and ages.”
The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t use the term “apotheosis” in its theology. This is equivalent to the Greek word theosis are Latin-derived words “divinization” & deification” used in the Latin tradition of the Catholic Church.
The concept has been given less prominence in Western theology than in that of the Eastern Catholic Churches. But is present in the Latin Church’s liturgical prayer.
Despite the theological differences, in the Catholic church art depictions of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in art & the Ascension of Jesus in Christian art do share many similarities in composition to apotheosis subjects. As there are many images of saints being raised into Heaven.
Anthropolatry is the deification & worship of humans. It was practiced in ancient Japan towards their emperors. Followers of Socinianism were later accused of practicing anthropolatry.
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https://www.alojapan.com/1318201/secret-japanese-past-of-kim-jong-uns-mother-threatens-north-koreas-propaganda-legacy/ Secret Japanese past of Kim Jong-un’s mother threatens North Korea’s propaganda legacy #China #Chongryun #France #gomi #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JejuIsland #KimDynasty #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #KimJongUn #KimJongChul #KimJongNam #KoYongHui #news #NorthKorea #Osaka A new book published in Japan has shed fresh light on the life of Ko Yong-hui, the mother of Kim Jong-un, whose background the North Korean leader would prefer remains
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El pueblo coreano recuerda al camarada Kim Il Sung en el 31º aniversario de su deceso
El pueblo coreano recuerda al gran Líder, camarada Kim Il Sung (15 de abril de 1912-8 de julio de 1994), Presidene Eterno de la República Popular Democrática de Corea y fundador del Partido del Trabajo de Corea, con motivo del 31º aniversario de su deceso.
El gran Líder,
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Elkarrizketa Euskadi Irratian Eguzkiaren Egunari buruz, Kim Il Sung burkidearen urtebetetzea
Korea sozialistan apirilaren 15a egun handia da, Eguzkiaren Eguna ospatzen bai dute: Kim Il Sung, Korear Herri Errepublika Demokratikoko Betirako Presidentearen urtebetetzea.Hori dela eta, Euskadi Irratiko Faktoria saiotik Korearekiko Laguntasun Elkar
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15 de agosto, Día de Liberación de Corea
El 15 de agosto de este año cumple el 79° aniversario de la liberación de la patria, causa histórica lograda por el Presidente Kim Il Sung quien condujo a la victoria la ardua guerra antijaponesa.
La Lucha Revolucionaria Antijaponesa de 20 años, organizada y dirigida por él, constituyó una ardua guerra sin precedentes en la historia de liberación de la humani
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Actos de recuerdo al Presidente Kim Il Sung por el 30º aniversario de su fallecimiento
Pasaron 30 años desde el fallecimiento del Presidente Kim Il Sung, fundador y líder eterno de nuestro Estado digno y Padre generoso de todo el pueblo.Las 3 décadas pasadas fueron el período de continuación sagrada y cambios gigantescos en que se pusieron d
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Corea socialista recuerda a su fundador, el Presidente Kim Il Sung, en el 30° aniversario de su fallecimiento
Con motivo del aniversario 30 de fallecimiento del Presidente Kim Il Sung, todo el pueblo coreano recuerda con emoción las hazañas imperecederas del gran hombre sin par quien construyó el socialismo al estilo coreano, centrado
https://www.kfa-eh.org/2024/07/08/corea-socialista-recuerda-a-su-fundador-el-presidente-kim-il-sung-en-el-30-aniversario-de-su-fallecimiento/
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Kim Ki Nam, a key figure in crafting the propaganda that shaped the cult of personality around North Korea's ruling family dynasty since the nation's founding during the Cold War, has passed away at the age of 94. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-propaganda-boss-dies/ #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #kimjongun #kimilsung #kinjongil #misinformation
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Kim Ki Nam, a key figure in crafting the propaganda that shaped the cult of personality around North Korea's ruling family dynasty since the nation's founding during the Cold War, has passed away at the age of 94. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-propaganda-boss-dies/ #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #kimjongun #kimilsung #kinjongil #misinformation
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Kim Ki Nam, a key figure in crafting the propaganda that shaped the cult of personality around North Korea's ruling family dynasty since the nation's founding during the Cold War, has passed away at the age of 94. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-propaganda-boss-dies/ #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #kimjongun #kimilsung #kinjongil #misinformation
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Kim Ki Nam, a key figure in crafting the propaganda that shaped the cult of personality around North Korea's ruling family dynasty since the nation's founding during the Cold War, has passed away at the age of 94. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/08/asia-pacific/politics/north-korea-propaganda-boss-dies/ #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #kimjongun #kimilsung #kinjongil #misinformation
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Corea recuerda el 112 aniversario del nacimiento del camarada Kim Il Sung
El 15 de abril es el día de nacimiento del gran camarada Kim Il Sung, gran sabio virtuoso sin par, admirado y venerado por todo el mundo.Con motivo de la fiesta de abril, la más jubilosa de la nación, nuestro pueblo y la humanidad progresista del mundo rememoran con mayor em
https://www.kfa-eh.org/2024/04/15/corea-recuerda-el-112-aniversario-del-nacimiento-del-camarada-kim-il-sung/
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2023-02-03 #video
"Why aren't international battalions fighting for #Russia? Where are battalions named after #HoChiMihn, #CheGuevara, #KimIlSung and #MaoZedong?" - #Solovyev
He must have received new guidelines.
Can you imagine anything like that?
