Robyn Lebron This cult of personality appears to be a large part of the life of the North Koreans There are roughly eight hundred statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea The main structure of idolatry, above all, is the Kim Il Sung statue in front of the Museum of Korean Revolution in Pyongyang, erected in April 1972 to celebrate Kim Il Sung’s sixtieth birthday It is 75.5 feet high Kim Il Sung’s image is prominent in places associated with public transportation, hanging at every North Korean train station and airport It is also placed prominently at the border crossings between China and North Korea According to reports from the North Korean state-run media since 2000, one mural was made in 2000, four in 2002, then the number increased to nineteen in 2003, forty-nine in 2004, and a sharp increase to seventy in 2005 Then i n 2006, fifty-five murals were made while sixty-seven were made in 2007 Eighty-eight murals were made in 2008 Furthermore, the size of the mosaic murals is growing; all this despite the poverty of the people in North Korea “ ,” said Han Sung-joo (a former South Korean foreign minister before he defected to South Korea) Ǥ Ǥ ǡ Ǥ h ǡ Ǥ” Today, tomorrow and till the world lasts, people in the Korean peninsula will hold President Kim Il Sung in their heart with all their love, respect and affection The nation will remember his contributions on every sun rise.15 Christ Juche ideology characterizes Kim Il Sung as a messianic liberator of humankind and describes North Korea as a chosen nation and North Koreans as a chosen people, who have a mission to liberate the world In the written in 1998, Kim Il Sung was described as the eternal head of state Kim was described as a “political parent” who was said to be present with people as long as they held