Daddy Dear (Leader)est: Kim Il-Sung, the founding president of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, stands with his eldest son, current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, at a Pyongyang soccer field in 1992. Long before his own death in 1994, the elder Kim named Jong-Il as his successor; the regime even whipped up a creation myth for him, officially changing his place of birth from an obscure outpost in the Soviet Union to an anti-Japanese guerrilla camp on top of a mountain. The son has returned the favor, building a seemingly endless array of monuments to his father, and ordering North Koreans to pay homage to them on his birthday each year.
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