Kim II-Sung was the first leader of North Korea; he joined the communist group when he had his family fled to Manchuria (Modern day China) from the suppressive times under the Japanese control. On returning to North Korea he joined the Korea guerrilla resistant to fight the Japanese, this is when the Soviet Union noticed his military skills and trained him, later he joined the communist party. After the cold war ended Americans occupied south Korea while the Russians occupied North Korea. After becoming the leader Koreans workers communist party, he launched a series of attack on South Korea that sparked the Korean War. None of the two won hence causing division between south and North Korea. Kim destroyed all his opposition rulers after thus becoming the only ruler of North Korea. North Korea was under the communist rule where through Kim’s dictatorship, his government controlled all factories and all products.

Kim was over ambitious and wanted to build north Koreas economy without relying on foreign aid, this uplifted north Korea’s economy for the 1^st few years but later its economy became stagnant while that of South Korea proliferated (Suh, 2012). China was creating economic ties with other countries while North Korea remained isolated due to Kim dictatorship leadership. Kim controlled all aspects of life and instilled fear in all the citizens. Through his dictatorship leadership, the hope of uniting North and south Korea was lost. In my opinion, Kim’s leadership was ineffective due to the ambitions that saw him do away with all his opposition rulers. He also did not wish to rely on a foreign aid to develop his country which saw other countries like North Korea rise above North Korea. Kim also refused to form economic ties with countries like China; all these failures saw his country remain stagnant in economic growth. Kim would be an ineffective leader for my country since my country relied on forging economic ties with other countries for it to develop.

Reference

Suh, D. S. (2012). Military-First Politics of Kim Jong Il. Asian Perspective, 145-167.