Totalitarianism In North Korea

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Many like-minded individuals would assume that Totalitarian ruling was a thing in the past. Some people are actually not aware that it still manages to linger within today's modern day era, but shockingly enough it is currently implemented to several nations around the world mainly in the Middle East and Asia.

Totalitarianism is a form of government in which the government or supreme leader regulates all aspects of its citizens’ daily lives by establishing goals, strict regulations and utilization of intense terror. Individuals living within these parameters are forced to live in a certain culture. A prime example of a unforsaken cultural phenomenon.

In the Early 1920’s a fascist leader in the name of Benito Mussolini, took on the term …show more content…

The two have become rivalries for controversy over whom will be dropping nuclear bombs. Kim Jong-Un was the son of former leader, Kim Jong-il who has preceded to take on the role as dictator after his father's death. When Kim Jong Un became the new ruler, the people hoped he would be a better leader than his father but the opposite occurred instead. No improvements were integrated, the situation only worsened. Kim Jong Un was instead more a brutal ruler and sealed the country off more than ever. The N. Korean government provides its people to get their citizens through their daily live, by equipping them with housing, health care, education and jobs. This affects the economic standpoint of the nation, because since everything is given and supplied by the government, competition is no longer is existent. A private economy has made its way into the lives of its citizens in order to attain more profit. North Korean culture has been predestined to them since birth beginning from kinder in which children are taught how to hate Americans through nursery rhymes and stories while in the same sense to become loyal to the “Great Successor” himself. Kim Jong Un claims that it is never too young to be indoctrinated. Even art is served as an instrument to create ideology to constrict …show more content…

Seventy six years ago, Mao [Chinese ruler] incorporated a socialist way of living and the totalitarian rule was banished. However, just five years ago; the new leader XI JINPING is attempting to make totalitarian rule apparent one again, especially in today's 21st century. He is essentially reverting it by establishing a cyber monitoring agency. China is now considered to be a “Digital Totalitarian” state in which all forms of internet usage its regulated by the government. Freedom for the Chinese is shrinking day by day. A nation known for its rich culture, is slowly beginning to deteriorate. Jinping’s overtaking the internet culture amongst the Chinese. They feel watched and restricted from the freedoms of