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The Kumsusan Palace: North Korea's Mausoleum of the Kim Dynasty

The Kumsusan Palace: North Korea's Mausoleum of the Kim Dynasty

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In this episode of North Korea: The Secret History of the World's Most Isolated State, Lucas and Luna explore the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun — the sprawling mausoleum in Pyongyang where Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il lie in state. Built originally as the Kumsusan Assembly Hall for the Korean Workers' Party, the building was transformed into a shrine after Kim Il-sung's death in 1994. They discuss the palace's massive scale — larger than the Kremlin and the Forbidden City — and the bizarre rituals expected of visitors, including bowing at specific angles and the prohibition of smiling or speaking loudly. They delve into the political logic behind immortalizing the Kims in this way, linking it to the Juche ideology of eternal leadership and the Kim family's cult of personality. The episode also touches on the cost of maintaining the mausoleum during the Arduous March famine of the 1990s, when millions of North Koreans starved while resources were diverted to preserve the Kims' bodies. Lucas and Luna reflect on the dissonance between the palace's opulence and the country's poverty, and what the Kumsusan Palace reveals about North Korea's dynastic system. #NorthKorea #KumsusanPalace #KimIlSung #KimJongIl #Juche #CultOfPersonality #Mausoleum #Pyongyang #ArduousMarch #KimDynasty #Famine #SocialistRealism #EastAsia #History #FexingoHistory #ColdWar #Authoritarianism #Propaganda Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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