How Western Empire Picks a Puppet Leader: choose a pro Western figure alienated from his people and living in the west. Have him slaughter his people if they reject imposition of Western rule. This kind of personality assessment is ideal: “vanity has made him highly susceptible to contrived flattery or self-seeking interests... His intellect is a shallow one, and his behaviour is often irrational and even childish.” South Korea’s first president is one of many examples across the world of the ideal ‘Westphalian Collaborator’ 
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How North Korea Adapted Soviet Communism to Suit Its Own Traditional Culture and Society 
Extract from scholar A. B. Abrams’ best selling book: ‘Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years at War with American Power.’ (p. 547)
'From its formation North Korea’s ideology has been influenced by and has assimilated parts of the country’s traditional culture, Confucianism in particular, in a way that few if any other ideologies have in communist states. Premier Kim Il Sung’s reformism Juche speech on December 28, 1955, which outlined the country’s future ideological position to the propagandists and agitators of the Korean Workers’ Party, notably stressed the need to draw inspiration from national culture, history and traditions for the ideological work of the Korean revolution. While no mention was made of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao or even Stalin, the Korean leader warned against the “negation of Korean history” with “foreign ideas,” emphasizing above all else the importance of a Korean national identity. While the Stalinist economic model, which had rapidly industrialised the Soviet Union, would be largely adopted, this would be interpreted and applied in a way that was compatible with Korea’s own culture. As the Korean leader envisioned, the “essence” and “principles” of communist ideology would be “creatively applied” in line with the needs of the Korean nation—the former would bend to the latter rather than vice versa. He thus strongly criticised “dogmatism and formalism” in ideological work and advised: “There can be no set principle that we must follow the Soviet fashion. Some advocate the Soviet way and others the Chinese but is it not high time to work out or own?” Korean nationalism has thus remained central to North Korea’s revolution from its inception.'
Available from the publisher Clarity Press, as well as from Amazon.co.uk. Full references published in the original book.
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